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Summary: J.K. Rowling does it again!
Review: J.K. Rowling once again brings freshness and humor to the Harry Potter series. Book No. 4 is a gem, and to my mind, even better than the Chamber of Secrets and the Prisoner of Azkeban. The story is beautifully plotted, uses all kinds of new magical devices (while finding new angles to old ones) and introduces a slew of wonderfully developed and clever characters that one hopes will keep cropping up in later books. The 734 pages are anything but daunting; I could have read twice as much and still not have gotten enough. I don't want to give any of the plot away so suffice it to say, don't miss this one!
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Summary: This was an Amazing book!
Review: It was a wonderful idea to change how the story went from the normal year! The fact that so many things about it were different from the first three and that there is an ominous twist at the end allows for readers to be sure that book V will not be a normal outlined schoolyear {like books 1-3.} Also the fact that you found out so much about the adults in this one that you will have a new feeling about each different person due to their former background. With all of this we are sure to realize that with Voldemort coming back the last three will be just as interesting {or more} as the first four.
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Summary: Wonderful book! All you could expect!
Review: I was delighted by how well this book flows from book three. Many sequles can be picked up and understood without reading the previous books in a series. However, I think it would be dificult to do that with this one. This is not a negative thing for this book, in my opinion. Previous information and characters, a few even that we haven't since since book one, add a great deal to the the feeling of this book making it feel more realistic. Very fun and exciting book! and Yes I waited a hour in line... in the third store I looked at. The first two were sold out!
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Summary: Harry is back and better then ever!
Review: This book was the best out of all four! I got it the day it came out and I haven't put it down since.(Literally) The book is about the Tri-Wizard Tournament at school. Only children above 17 are allowed to enter. The tournament goes on between 3 wizarding schools, Hogwarts, Durmstrang and Buexbatons. One champion from each school will be chosen out of the Goblet of Fire which judges which of the entries are most worthy to participate for their school. Somehow Harry's name has been put in and he has been chosen! He now must compete in 3 dangerous tasks. Harry works through out most of the school year preparing for these tasks. The book remains exciting throughout. I would advise anyone who liked the other three books to buy this as soon as possible to read, you'll love it as much as you loved the others!
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Summary: the best one yet!
Review: Die hard fans of Harry Potter as well as newcomers to the world of Hogwarts and Muggles will find this book equalling charming and amazing. It's incredible anytime when you have ten year olds gobbling a 700+ page book up like kids as if it were a short story. Rowling's writing has only gotten better: her storyline has just enough background so that even if you have not read the other books, you can enjoy this one. Wonderful, I would highly reccomend it to anyone who has any "reserves" about it. Become part of the Harry Potter phenomona. :)
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Summary: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Review: I have read all of the Harry Potter books and they keep getting better. In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, the action takes place quicker than in the previous books. In reading this book we learn histories of many of the characters as well as bringing them back from the previous books. JK Rowling does a fine job in making the reader feel they are at The Quidditch cup or at Hogwarts meeting the students from two other magical schools. Like in the other books, we see how important it is that we have our friends believe in us and we believe in them. Like in real life Harry, Ron and Hermione have some arguments and grow stronger together. The Goblet of Fire does have some scary and emotional scenes but, no stronger than television cartoons. The feelings the reader have for the characters, show how much they mean to us. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is a wonderful book and like the Wizard of OZ, Harry Potter will be with us for ever.
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Summary: The Wonderful and Scary World of Harry Potter
Review: Harry Potter, as only a few Muggles don't know, is a world famous boy. His parents were killed years before by He-Who-Must-Not-Be Named; his early years were a misery, being abused and derided by his mother's relatives; but he found at the age of 11 that he was, in fact, a famous person in the wonderful world of magic, and was invited to attend an school of magic called Hogwarts. His first three years there are fully documented in the first three books of this marvelous series.But now Harry is growing up. He is rapidly becoming a teenager, and the dangers of his world are becoming serious as well. This new book in the series, while twice as long as the previous books, never drags or seems drawn out. The exposition of the previous books is done quickly and smoothly, without boring readers already enscounced in Harry's world, the characters of Harry's best friends, Ron and Hermoine, are more deeply developed, and the menace of Harry's arch enemy, He-Who-Must-Not-Be Named, deepened into a real danger. Both Harry's world and ours are led into a dark and chlling denouement that will only leave readers begging for the next book! Maybe if we all work a magic spell? Please hurry, Ms. Rowling! Muggles for Harry forever!
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Summary: Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire
Review: This Harry Potter book is more af a unique book than all the others because they get to interact with other schools, besides hogwarts and harry gets a girlfriend its really a great book for all ages of people to enjoy. it tells more about hogwarts history and its the best one yet, I think!
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Summary: Exceptional!
Review: This book, as are all of the Harry Potter books, was excellent. J.K. Rowling is a wonderful fantasy author. Extremely suspenseful and dramatic, it kept me guessing all the time. It was kind of freaky/scary and there was a lot more in there about the Dark Arts than in her other books. I had not really expected that. The writing didn't really fit with the rest of the series--it was much more of a dramatic adventure story than a fun-filled, entertaining fantasy, like the other ones were. I, however, still enjoyed it immensely and cannot wait for the fifth one in the series. How anyone could want to ban her writing is beyond me. Her writing is fantasy and her readers are quite aware of that. The messages in her books about Magic are not violent and are really not worth the fuss and complaints that people are putting up about them. Fiction and fantasy are written for a reason: for entertainment. People who read fantasy know that. I really enjoy her writing and I wish people would be more sensible about litature.
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Summary: Amazing---- through and through
Review: I just finished reading "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" After days of waiting, it finally arrived via Fedex, and I was thrilled. This book was absolutly amazing, while expecting the trademark "plot twist" that J.K. Rowling always pulls of so remarkably, I began early on to look for clues that were being slightly hinted at a possible twist. So then, I, trying to ignore Harry, Hermione, and Ron's suspicions, I cooked up my own predictions about the plot twist to come. So, I read axiously awaiting to see if the rumors I had heard would become true. When I reached the end though, I was in complete SHOCK. There is absolutly no way I could've cooked up a theory anywhere near as amazing as J.K.'s ending. Of course, that's why she is the author and I am the one sitting here, awesricken by her compelling story lines that will keep me coming back for more, for as long as more will be available. Read this book, you will value every 734 pages.
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