Review: #258
Title: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Series: Harry Potter - 5th book
Author: J.K. Rowling
Read Before: yes
My Comments: Still a good book but the weakest entry into the Harry Potter series (thus far and overall). The author really had a knack for creating extremely annoying characters that you just cannot wait until you see how they fall from power. It’s a masterful skill to balance between empathy for the main characters and annoyance to the point where you don’t want to carry on reading. The protagonists have also gotten more annoying, with Harry being the most noticeable. He’s a lot more stubborn compared to previous books, and I guess that’s what makes him more interesting (as it is boring if a character is perfect in every aspect), but you’d wish he’ll listen to some others sometime… Another drawback is the length of the book, easily the longest in the series, and it becomes a drag to read it by the time you get to the middle, particularly as you know that the ending is where a lot of the good stuff is going to be. The relationship between Harry and Cho was actually quite sweet, too bad it never worked out (although Cho was starting to get annoying with all the crying and mentioning of Cedric). The death was really surprising though, I remembered when I first read it, I couldn't believe coz it just came out of nowhere. In the end, I felt that this book didn't achieve that much that added to the series as a whole and not super groundbreaking like Goblet of Fire was.
Rating: 7/10