I like most everything I read. I really did not like this. There aren’t too many good things to say about it. I will say this, though. The story had the potential to be very powerful. It was lost in the fluffy descriptions of just about everything. The writing felt very forced. It just didn’t seem to flow, if you know what I mean. I had to force myself to finish the book because I just can’t leave a book unfinished. The climax also seemed to come about two-thirds of the way through the book, leaving about 100 pages of falling action, which was not particularly interesting. This was definetly not worth my time.

I read this for the first time about a year ago. I read it so quickly that I didn’t remember any of it, so I had to reread it before I could start Half Blood Prince. Harry was a bit too angsty for me in this one. I couldn’t identify as well as I could with the other books. It’s not my favorite, but it certainly wasn’t a bad book.