This is definitely my favorite this far. The plot twists are amazing, the conflict and fear made me turn the pages like my life depended on it (which it kind of did), and world building is (as I've surely mentioned before) magical.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
So this is book love on first chapter. As you may know, I often have a bit of a problem with reading the second book in a series lately. I have difficulty getting into it sometimes. It's not really caused by anything, it just happens. And then I end up totally loving the third book in the series. Well, the Prisoner of Azkaban officially got me hooked to Harry Potter even more than the Sorcerer's Stone did.
Me when I by some undetermined miracle meet J.K. Rowling:
Rating:
5 stars (duh)
Spoilers Below. Consider yourself warned.
Okay, by now, I know what to expect (or I thought I did). A gentle increasement of information throughout a wonderful story, starting at the Dursleys, than continuing at Hogwarts. A new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, a new problem or mystery that needs to be solved. So I thought I would just theorize and speculate along with my favorite characters. I was wrong about almost everything.
But before the real spoiler section starts, let's glance over some of the aspects that I particularly appreciate about this individual Harry Potter book.
The dementors scare the living cr@p out of me. They are like Voldemort drinking pony blood times ten on the scale of scariness. The whole happiness eating, the hand, and the black cloak. I love the chocolate cure, though. Hey, a happiness killer just made you faint, have some chocolate.
Another thing I adore is the Patronus. For one, because I bet it looks extremely cool in the movie (which I still have to see). But just the idea of this beautiful white stag (my obsession with stags since Shadow and Bone has been intensified) created out of pure happiness. The cuteness and the wonderfulness of this protective bright and shiny creature just makes me hope we will use that spell again.
The dementors for me also add to the image of Azkaban. If there would've just been normal guards, the effect would have been insane. I don't even want to imagine dear Hagrid sitting there for months, let alone Sirius being locked up for more than ten years!
Oh, Divination, how you remind me of some of my own ridiculous lessons. All the Divination lessons make me laugh. I especially liked McGonagall just casually asking whose death has been predicted this year. It does make me, yet again, doubt whether Dumbledore ever checks he sanity of his colleagues. You're seriously going to let a teacher scare kids to death every year by saying one of them will die? ... Yay, pretty Christmas decoration.
Okay, let's get to the final battle. If I ever have trust issues, I will blame Harry Potter. Seriously, at the end of this book, I suspected everyone. We're in the Shrieking Shack and we're facing Sirius, who was first a gigantic dog, and there's Lupin. I read this all in my living room couch and was staring at my tablet. Suddenly Lupin's a werewolf, which I DID NOT SEE COMING OH MY PANTS! That was insane. Then Scabbers turns out to be Peter. I was half prepared for this. Thanks to the Honest Trailer for Harry Potter, I knew Scabbers was an old bald dude. What I didn't know was that he was A SUPPOSEDLY DEAD DUDE WHAT JUST HAPPENED!? Meanwhile, I had conjured up a theory that Crookshanks was actually Voldemort... Oops. Not true. So then Sirius is suddenly nice and Rat Man is evil (read the Scorch Trials, should have seen that coming) and we get surrounded by dementors and PATRONUS AND GODFATHER AND I AM ALMOST CRYING AND NO SIRIUS YOU'RE NOT GOING TO DIE YET I LIKE YOU TOO MUCH And then Snape is a stupid sh!the@d and I am scared that Sirius will die (again) and then HERMIONE HAS A TIME MACHINE AND WHAT IS HAPPENING I DON'T UNDERSTAND DUMBLEDORE EXPLAIN YOURSELF Which leads to me soundlessly screaming at my book at midnight and wondering about everything I've ever known. And then Sirius escapes and we're all alive but Trelawney's prediction is probably real and Peter will help Voldemort and I need the next book but I also need sleep and HELP. And I know that in the next book SHIT'S GONNA GO DOWN!
And then I saw Sasha's review of the next one:
"...I feel empowered and sad at the same time (sad because...you know)..."
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