For my first review of books, the subject kind of picked itself naturally. Of course, I’m talking about the Harry Potter saga. 7 wonderful books that have inspired kids all over the world to read and love it. I think that I was maybe 10 or 11, when I first read the book. I knew it because of the movie, something that I used to watch over and over again on VHS. 🙂
It was always like going in to a dream, an adventure that I wished that would never stop. But I have to say that even though the movies are and always will be great adaptations to the books, taking in account the size and the amount of details of those, reading the books was so much better.
The feeling that I had when I was reading the first one, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, was like I was finally seeing the whole picture of the puzzle, with everything that wasn’t put in to the movie. Never less thanks to the amazing crew and cast, that took this outstanding story and made it reality, you truly never led me down.
“Harry Potter is an ordinary boy who lives in a cupboard under the stairs at his Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon’s house, which he thinks is normal for someone like him who’s parents have been killed in a ‘car crash’. He is bullied by them and his fat, spoilt cousin Dudley, and lives a very unremarkable life with only the odd hiccup (like his hair growing back overnight!) to cause him much to think about. That is until an owl turns up with a letter addressed to Harry and all hell breaks loose! He is literally rescued by a world where nothing is as it seems and magic lessons are the order of the day. Read and find out how Harry discovers his true heritage at Hogwarts School of Wizardry and Witchcraft, the reason behind his parents mysterious death, who is out to kill him, and how he uncovers the most amazing secret of all time, the fabled Philosopher’s Stone! All this and muggles too. Now, what are they?” Amazon.co.uk description of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
After all this time and after all the amazing books, classic or “new” that I’ve read (which aren’t a few) I can say with 100% guarantee that the one that I hold more memories and more love to is Harry Potter. I don’t know if it’s because it was my first “real” saga or just because it so unbelievably well written, with a story that grabs you from the first moment and never lets you go. I’ll bet on the second one ;).
Going now on the review… there is no reason for me to make a detailed approach on every single book, for the reason that they are so popular that everyone already knows the story and honestly because if I was to sit and write about every single detail or moment that I loved in all the 7 books and why, I would be here till Christmas time. So I’ll just say that for me the only book that took me a little longer to read, was Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and I did felt throughout the middle that I was starting to lose interest, never less once I kept going I end up enjoying it as much as the others. So if you have had the same struggle, my advice it’s just keeping reading, because like all of them it was well worth. And if by this time of the post (if you’re still reading) you haven’t figured it out that I’m one proud fierce defender of this saga and totally advice you to read if you haven’t still, you’re just… in need of sleep probably of getting glasses. 🙂
So read, read and read (and give feedback)!
Lots of love,
Paradise of Words
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