Reviews

The Order of Harry Potter: Literary Skill in the Hogwarts Epic by Colin Manlove

madetofly's review

3.0

I feel kind of bad about posting a somewhat negative review on Christmas, but I honestly skimmed the last part of this book because I just didn't really like it. It wasn't bad per se, but I just didn't have any interest in it. The author spent a lot of time just comparing Harry Potter to other books, and this would have been fine to a certain extent of course, but it seemed to be all he did. He spent a lot of time describing the other books and then just going through and pointing out similarities between Harry Potter and those books. It was usually to point out something about the Harry Potter books, but it usually seemed to just become a comparison, and I honestly had no interest in reading those.

The parts of the book that I actually read in detail had a few interesting points, but like I said, most of it was just comparisons it seemed. I feel as if most of it was spent describing the books he was comparing to Harry Potter to reader in case they hadn't read them. Maybe that would have changed if I'd stuck with the book, but I just got so bored with it that I couldn't.

I don't really think this is a bad book. It just isn't really a book I find enjoyable to read. I'm sure it's a book that many others would find enjoyable though. It just depends on what you enjoy reading.

http://hmweasley-blog.blogspot.com/2012/12/book-review-order-of-harry-potter-by.html