Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets
Book two teeters on the edge of Young Adult and... not YA, which I guess would be just mainline fantasy. Now that the Wizarding World has been established, the books start to have a lot more fun. And…
Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows
At last we come to the end. Though this is the least Harry Potter-esque of all the books, it is a fantastic work of fantasy. One wild adventure leads to the next and the next and the next. Once it…
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
In the summer of 2018, I re-read the entire series (the Stephen Fry version, not the Jim Dale reading on Audible). As I undertook the endeavor, I wondered what my favorite book would be. The "easy"…
Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince
Book six has the strongest ending of the entire series. I could hardly wait to get through the book for the final few chapters. It is the last door to be knocked down before the final—and the…
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Fittingly, book four is the turning point for the series (and my favorite), and now we turn to dark times in the wizarding world. In this book, my hands-down favorite antagonist comes to roost in…
Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban
The only thing that holds Book 3 back from being a five-star for me is the Malfoy-Snape-Potter story arc was growing wearisome for me. At a certain point, it became a distraction from the story,…
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Book 1
Note: This review is for the Stephen Fry recording, not the Jim Dale version on Audible, the latter of which is complete shit.1 If you haven't read Harry Potter and you're over the age of 18, then…
Series: Harry Potter
All of these reviews are for the Stephen Fry recording, not the Jim Dale version on Audible. That version on Audible is complete shit. I downloaded the Fry version years ago—around 2007—and recently…