Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter 6)[Adult Edition]

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Author: J.k. Rowling
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Paperback 768 pages

Release Date: 23 June 2006

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

ISBN: 0747584664

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Sales Rank: 951

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Customer Reviews:

A test of faith . (24 December 2008)

The bearers of wands
The casters of spells
Their story
Once again begins

Though he became
a nemesis foe
Of little Tomy Riddle
little we know
What of his parents ?
What of his birth ?
What of his summers ?
And what of his snow ?
Read the book
and ye shall know

But of the final chapter
a warning must be given first
For there your faith upon Joanne
will be tested most .

Many thanks to Bloomsbury for it's Adult Editions.

Absolutely perfect. (24 December 2007)
(Contains spoilers for 'Order of the Phoenix' and slight spoilers for 'Half Blood Prince'.)

This entire series is special but now that it's complete I can safely say this is my favourite. I'll re-read all the books but this one the most.

Review:

After Sirius' death in book five, Dumbledore invites Harry to help him investigate and obtain information regarding Voldermort's past (or to be more precise- Tom Riddle's past). With Voldermort's Deatheaters returning to him en masse, Voldermort is now ready to return to his reign of terror so Dumbledore and Harry must look into his past to see if there is any way of defeating him. These flashback sequences via the pensieve are terrific and really flesh out the character of Tom Riddle, giving him more substance.

As with each new book a new teacher arrives at Hogwarts. This time it is the larger than life, jolly yet fiercely ambitious Horace Slughorn who Dumbledore has convinced to come out of retirement. Apart from Hermione, Slughorn has now become my favourite character in the series. He is neither completely good or bad, he is complex, flawed and likable. For me he is one of Rowling's best creations.

Rowling has a wonderful ability to simultaneously progress the overall main story (in this book MAJOR events happen) and at the same time put excellent detail into the smaller stories that occur in the book. Each book always has a mystery element to be solved and here Harry, Ron and Hermione attempt to figure out who the 'Half- Blood Prince' is.

Some of the best chapters concern Harry, Hermione and Ron and their day to day troubles within Hogwarts such as Quiddich practice, how they are faring in certain classes now that they are studying the more difficult N.E.W.T course, not to mention their complicated love lives.

Rowling's world is completely absorbing and this was a pleasure to read with its' usual combination of mystery, humour and sadness, all of which is underpinned by the wonderful Characters- old and new.

10/10.

Great end to this series of Books (20 August 2007)
Careful Spoilers included:-

An enjoyable end to this series of 7 books. Darker, more intense then most of the other 6 books, this novel has few if any laughs but the battle scenes towards the end of the book are exciting, and there are some nice twists to the story, even if some of the story is a little predictable.

The last 200 pages were especially good and I found I couldn't put the book down and it great to have Gringotts featured again and of course nice that a lot of the ending happened at Hogwarts as that did seem to be missed from the beginning of the book.

I was disappointed that Mad Eye Moody was killed off so suddenly and found the scene where Dobby the House Elf came to rescue Harry and the others and then got killed by Bellatrix was especially emotional and was written really well by JKR. Also felt sad about Lupin, Tonks and Fred and of course guessed that Snape would kind of come good in the end, after all Dumbledore had never doubted him and he was usually right. I did however feel that the Epilogue at the end was a bit of a mistake and was just the publishers push to JK to tie things up in a neat ribbon for younger readers at the end, but it was so rushed and added little to the story that it really was unnecessary to have it there.

All in all a really good book and thorougly enjoyable to read and a shame the series has come to an end. Don't feel it should be read to very young children though as they may feel very upset with the scenes where people die as these are written in quite a bit of detail.

I don't think JKR should write any more HP books though, it should be left at this one and its fantastic that she has got people of all ages reading again. She should be highly commended for this.

A great ending to a fantastic series (30 July 2007)
In years to come, these books will be ranked along with the greats of child literature. A modern classic.

Bad but better than the last one (16 July 2007)
all I can say is its better than the last one but that's only because the last one is one of the worst books I've ever read (such a disappointment after the first 4) and to point out how truly bad the 6th and 5th are the bullet proof ness of Harry Potters die hard fans have actually been broken and I call upon any non extremist of Harry Potter to write a review about how much of a disappointment this is compared to the other 4. They are actually only 4 and a half stars it doesn't sound like much but if you think about it its is huge. And it proves my point