Half Blood Prince

Despite having the ending ruined for me, I enjoyed this book. I use the term enjoy very loosely as this book is filled with great tragedy. In any case, the wizarding world seems all the more real and concrete and I definitely appreciate how cheesiness, fun, sadness, character development and unpredictability are being balanced to tell this tale. Another plus to this book is that it makes the Chamber of Secrets seem like not such a waste of time.

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