Banned Books Week #2 (September 21-27) Review #2 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling

Hello again all, I meant to post this yesterday but I got so caught up in my reading for school that I didn't have a chance. Goblet of Fire is the 4th book in the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling. Visually it is stunning and much thicker than any of the other books so far (the cover I have has Harry being chased by a dragon who is guarding a golden egg (that's important later on in the book, NO SPOILERS) and it's beautiful!) But enough about the appearance of the book.

The story itself starts, much as it has done for the past 3 books, with Harry's horrible relatives at Privet Drive. Everything seems as if it's going to be business as usual until a letter comes from Harry's best friend Ron inviting him to go to the Quidditch World Cup with them (Bulgaria vs. Ireland, no I won't say how it ends, you have to read the book) Everything's going swimmingly until a strange mark appears in the sky, the mark of the Dark Lord, the one most often left by his Death Eaters in the wake of an attack. Things happen, they're not too important, but soon everyone is packing off to Hogwarts again for their 4th year. Between a dangerous tournament fir inly the best and brightest students from 3 schools and a crazy ex-auror Defense professor, will Harry have a quiet year? Of course not. As for what happens in the end you'll have to read to find out!

This book is poignantly, brilliantly written with plot twists every step of the way that will keep you guessing and the magical adventures along the way will keep you hooked and leave you wanting more. You'll laugh, you'll be scared, you'll fly with dragons and you'll love every minute of it. Speaking of laughing I wonder if Draco's father every found out about his little run in with Moody...(I will say no more, you have to read it) I'll try and post again soon...probably on the 5th book (the longest of the lot interestingly enough)

Banned Books Week #2 (September 21-27) Review #1 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling

Hi all, it's Banned Books week again! I must admit I have been most remiss in my reviews for this week, I posted the list and ever since I've been reading Neverwhere. However, my first review this week (I know, it's already Thursday, school gets in the way sometimes) is the third Harry Potter book.

It's the start of Harry's third year and he's at the Dursley's again. This year there are no house elves with dire warning on his birthday and his letters come through but it's still shaping up to be an awful summer. Ron's off to Egypt with his family to see his eldest brother Bill and his Hogwarts letter arrives with a permission slip for Hogsmeade, the wizarding village near Hogwarts. Unfortunately his Aunt Marge is coming to stay and suffice it to say that her visit doesn't end well and Harry runs off. When he reaches the Leaky cauldron, thats in London, Hedwig is already waiting for him. A few days later he meets his friends there and the new school year starts with promise. Unfortunately for Harry there's an escaped mass murderer on the loose with dementors chasing him, so much for a quiet year. Why is he after Harry? Who is he? What does he really want? Find out all this an more in the third installment of the acclaimed Harry Potter series.

This book, these books, are brilliant and once you've read them you never go back. It's brilliantly written and the story is so wonderful, sad at parts I won't lie, but great. This installment, like it's predecessors, is so cleverly written it keeps you guessing with endless questions, who is the mysterious, Prisoner of Azkaban? didhe actually commit the crimes he was jailed for? If he was innocent why didn't Dumbledore do something? What kind of coward chops off his finger and frames his best friend for murder? What kind of Cowardly Lion are you? And you call yourself a Gryffindor, McGonagall would be disgusted.

You can probably tell I'm a huge Potterhead but if you've read the books and seen the movies, you understand...I highly recommend this book, and it's predecessors and once you read them you never see the world the same way, I promise you that.

As always you can recommend me books to read through Twitter or my blog here, even on Shelfari, until next time (sorry for the delay) keep reading, keep writing, and DFTBA!

Banned Books Week #2 September 21-27, 2014 - Review list

Hi all, I'm doing the September Banned Books Week (I did the one in February as well) and I thought I'd post a list of the books that I'd be reviewing...feel free to comment of tweet me with other banned books that you'd like me to review and I'll work through the list during both Banned Books Weeks (the one now and the one in February) and in honour of my birthday in October I might do my own Banned Books week then (or something) and of course I'll try my hardest to finish my old summer reading list, I know I didn't get far.

1. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - J.K. Rowling
2. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J.K. Rowling
3. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - J.K. Rowling
4. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J.K. Rowling
5. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J.K. Rowling
6. Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
7. Looking for Alaska - John Green
8. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
9. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
10. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
11. The Giver - Lois Lowry
12. Carrie - Stephen King
13. The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
14. The Golden Compass - Phillip Pullman
15. The Subtle Knife - Phillip Pullman
16. The Amber Spyglass - Phillip Pullman
17. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
18. Are you there God? It's me Margaret - Judy Blume
19. Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
20. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
21. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
22. The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky