Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - J.K. Rowling
Getting longer. Getting better? Not so much.
For me, these are starting to drag.
Man - this is long, ringing of formula, and
tired. I cannot wait for book six so I can read what will now be 300 pages
recapping the first 5 years... because that's the formula. Enough already.
J.K. - write less!
In short, I just
didn't care that the Dark Lord was off in the background, near as I could tell,
doing nothing. Nice name in Umbridge - always nice names. But, seriously,
she's not the villain, Dumbledore makes that clear by being mostly absent.
Where's the drama? Who cares about a bad school administrator; I didn't feel
the tension. This is the worst of the Potter books. I hope the trend is
reversed in the next one.
Posted: Mon - August 23, 2004 at 06:20 PM