Review: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Written on the original Movable Type site and recovered from the Internet Archive.

So I am a Potter fan. Unfortunately this one just dosen’t deliver. It takes WAY too long to get going. Nothing happens till the very end. At least in the other books there is more than one conflict scene. It seems like all backstory and build up. Like 400 pages of it! Then the climax is what we all expected any way. You need to read it to complete the series, but this is my least favorite. Also probably the least accessible if you haven’t read any of the others. If you are a fan, read it because you have to. If you are not yet, dont’ start here, go back to the beginning.

I rate it a 2 of 5 on the Tobias scale.


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