Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban Book Review

     One thing I love about the summer season is sitting outside on a nice day reading a book. Today was such a nice day out so I sat on my back porch and finished reading Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. 

    Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban was written by J.K. Rowling and it is the third book in the Harry Potter Series. The book begins with Harry on holiday he's back at home with the Dursleys and as usual they treat him terribly. To make matters worse, Uncle Vernon's sister Marge is visiting and she's even worse. Finally, Harry packs his bags and leaves. He goes and stays on Diagon Alley, a street where a lot of wizard shops are. Harry hears reports that a prisoner has escaped from Azkaban named Sirius Black who apparently was the heir apparent to Voldemort. Guards at Azkaban kept hearing Black mutter in his sleep "He's at Hogwarts... He's at Hogwarts." Harry isn't safe not even at Hogwarts. 

     In my opinion, this series is getting better and better with each book. I love the Prisoner of Azkaban more than I loved the first two books. And the first two books were really good. The Prisoner of Azkaban was intrueging, exciting, had a great twist, and a gripping climax. It also had a very satisfying ending. 

    Another thing I love about this series is that the first book was written on an eleven year old reading level, the Chamber of Secrets was written on a twelve year old reading level, and so on. So with each book you read, you're growing with the characters.

     Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is my favorite on the series so far. Of course it gets 5 out of 5 stars. I've already started reading The Goblet of Fire so I'll have a review of that as soon as I finish it.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Book Review

     This week I finished reading Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. As I promised when I reviewed The Sorcerer's Stone, I will now review The Chamber of Secrets. In my last review, I mentioned how I should've read this series a long time ago. To that I still hold because I really enjoyed this book.

     This book starts off with Harry back home living with his Uncle Vernon, Aunt Petunia, and his cousin Dudley. Because they treat him so badly all Harry wants is to go back to Hogwarts. However shortly before his term starts, he gets a mysterious visitor who tells Harry that if he returns to Hogwarts disaster will strike. And strike it does. The mysterious Heir of Slytherin has been causing attacks on students at Hogwarts.

   One thing I loved about the first book is that it was a fantasy novel as well as a mystery, and it had comedic moments as well. This book had all that going for it as well. It was also a darker book in my opinion. Three quarter through the book and the characters were at there lowest low. The attacker still hadn't been caught, the Quidditch season had been canceled, and Dumbledore was going to shut Hogwarts down. Which meant Harry would have to go back to live with the Dursleys. That brings me to another thing I loved about this book. In my Sorcerer's Stone review, I made a point of how much I cared about the characters. The Chamber of Secrets brought that to a whole new level. You really feel bad for these characters when they're at their lowest point. Also The Chamber of Secrets had a very interesting twist, and a satisfying ending which I will not spoil in case there is anyone like me who's reading this series for the first time.  

     Overall Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is right on par with the first one. I don't have any problems with it. I'm going to give it 5 out of 5 stars. I'm about halfway through the Prisoner of Azkaban right now. I'll post my review of it when I finish it.