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Summary: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix review
Review: If you are even remotely interested in Harry Potter, you MUST have this book! J.K. Rowling's writing style is sharp, funny, and incredibly clever.
Harry, Ron, and Hermione are back for another year, but Harry is quickly coming to realize that there is still much to be learned about his past, his parents, and his link to Voldemort.
I won't ruin any of the details, but you don't have to be a kid to enjoy this book!
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Summary: What a great enstallement of an already great series.
Review: This book is great, definitley buy it the second you see it, you won't regret it. This book is sure to inspire you into this magicaland enchanting world of its own, that while you are reading it, you feel you are standing side by side with Harry, Ron, and Hermoine. I won't ruin the ending of this book, but it blows you away more so than the last.
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Summary: She's Done It Again!!
Review: Congratulations, once again, to the incomparable JK Rowling. The same exciting, fast-paced, emotional reading as shown in her previous 4 books, with the wizarding world we've all come to know and love, including all our favourite characters.I particularly loved the older, typically teenage Harry, although he was hard to come to terms with at first, and I think that JK has epitomised the journey into adulthood with Harry's confusion and anger at his loss of both his previously simplistic view of the world and his innocence, in a manner that most of us adults who've gone through puberty, will be uncomfortably familiar with. I couldn't put it down! My one complaint - why can't she write faster?!!! Well done! I cannot recommend this, or any of the previous books in the series, highly enough to any age group. If you haven't been reading Harry Potter - where HAVE you been?
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Summary: If Only
Review: If only this book was more like the others. I read this book this weekend and was unfortunately very disappointed in what has been my favorite series of books. I thought the structure of J.K. Rowling's story was sometimes disorganized (Themes were developed and not carried through and were left hanging) and very depressing. I know that the books are getting darker and darker, but this was too much. Harry seemed to be someone I did not recognize, and I didn't feel this book was a good transition from the previous novel (four). There were too many loose ends which I fear will not be tied up until book seven. At the current rate, that would be five years from now. Fortunately, there are some fantastic scenes with the Weasley twins that make up for some of the above. If only....
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Summary: Excellent Follow-up!
Review: I pre-ordered this book and could not wait for it to come! I read it in 3 1/2 days. It was a great sequel to The Goblet of Fire and was one of the best books in the series! It contained a lot of suspence and even some humor. I recommend this book to ANYONE!
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Summary: THE BEST SO FAR!!!!!!
Review: harry potter has always been one of my favorite series. i love all the imagination and magic. when i finished reading Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix, i was amazed as usual. this book is so carefully written and descriptive. it caught my attention from the beginning and left me wanting more at the end. J. K. Rowling surprised everyone with twists and turns. At the end, i had tears in my eyes. This book is wonderful. i recommend it to EVERYONE.
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Summary: Wonderful, Wonderful
Review: Although this is a long book, it is a very quick read (three days). And I am left, as I always am, wanting the next book. Harry Potter is an amazing character. The New York Times reviewer thinks he is like Prince Hal--growing, learning, changing as the story unfolds--and will ultimately be a great wizard. I agree. But in Book 5, he is a frustrated and frequently powerless 15 year old young man (not really a boy any more) trying his best to deal with his life. Since Harry is not like ordinary boys, his life is somewhat more complicated. He has girl trouble(guess who?) like any normal boy, but he also has a credibility problem involving the events at the end of Book 4. He is frequently angry and frustrated, yelling at Ron and Hermione because he can't yell at the people causing his pain. As with all the books, Harry grows and changes as the year progresses. This book is darker than the others (as Rowling admits). There is less humor (although Fred and George add a light touch throughout the book--boy that thousand Galleons came in handy!) It was nice to see some old favorite characters making an appearance--Lupin, Sirius, and Mad-Eye Moody among them. Others appear, and one close to Harry dies. I don't want to spoil the story, so pardon my vagueness. On a personal note, I have been reading the series to my young niece, and she loves them. It has been an amazing way to connect to her. We are almost finished with Chamber of Secrets, and I know that she will bug me about this new book until we finish the very last page. This book was wonderful. I know that you will love it.
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Summary: A bit too slow
Review: Its good, but i couldnt really get into it at first. however, its still a must read and u can only really read it if you have read the other books, as opposed to the other books, which you could have been new to the series. it doesn't really have that big of an impact on the series and is not the best out of all 5, but its good and the most well-written and descriptive.
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Summary: A Great Continuation of Same Ol' ....
Review: okay, bad news first: it's long. very long. at parts i was thinking, "okay, why do i need to know this? why does it matter what time their Divination O.W.L. is?" but if you make it through that (and other dragging paragraphs), the book is another great chapter of the harry saga. i seldom have the pleasure of reading books that envoke such an emotional response from me. i LOATHE umbridge, and am not too terribly fond of the ministry in general. i'm conflicted about snape. i laughed out loud while harry was confused about cho chang and her emotions, and hermione's "no frills" scientific approach to the feelings of adolescent females. i found myself cross with harry and his fifteen-year-old angst and attitude. i cried all the while reading about the death of one of the ...characters (don't worry ~ i won't give it away!). it's a fabulous tale for every harry fan. (tip: refresh yourself with books 3 and 4, as those plots and characters figure prominently in book 5; i spent some time referencing myself back to 3 and 4 to full understand 5.)
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Summary: Decent Book
Review: This book took a dramatic turn from the nearly carefree excitement of the first couple of book. Harry was constantly paranoid. This shift puts the book in a seperate catagory from the first two. It is quite thrilling, I read it in two days. It is a bit more grown up from the last four, but it is still on track.
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