Really good, but more of a set-up for Book 7

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	• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6) J.K. Rowling Scholastic Paperbacks, 2006 - 652 pages average customer review:based on 3591 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Fabulous yet again!

I could not put the book down it was so fascinating throughout the entire book... I just love her books!

The plot thickens...

I write this now, having finished the series and am, to this day, mourning the loss of my adopted children Harry, Ron and Hermione and the gang! (That's not a spoiler folks). JK Rowling is a GENIUS...the complexity of this world, the clever, subtle undercurrents, themes and references are just overwhelmingly impressive. I know all good things must come to an end, but I sure miss the gang!

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Loved this book

It's Harry Potter and I've loved every book in this series. There's not much I can add to what's already been written.

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Page turner

Slightly disappointed with Rowling's saga, after the relatively boring and story-fatigued "Order of the Phoenix" (OTP), I was truly excited to read "The Half-Blood Prince" (HBP). This book is a turnaround to what seemed to be, in my opinion, an ever winding story.

In HBP, we find a more mature Harry Potter (which was an interesting but frustraing nuance in OTP) in a story with exciting developments:
- Dumbledore's sharing with Harry some "memory snapshots" of Voldemort's past
- A Potions class for which Harry ends up using a used book full of alternative formulas and tips, signed by a mysterious and anonymous "Half-Blood Prince"
- An open-war between the Death Eaters and the Order of the Phoenix (and Ministry of Magic)
- The infamous Draco Malfoy, with less "scenes", but with a mysterious behaviour that obsesses Potter
- Some evolutions in the love scene that put some "spice" into the story

I won't get into more details. This is a must, even for those, like myself, that were slightly disappointed with OTP.

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Really good, but more of a set-up for Book 7

Boy am I glad I didn't start this series until all seven books were written! If I didn't have Deathly Hallows sitting on the bookshelf when I finished this book, I'd have chewed my fingernails right off!

Who is the Half-Blood Prince? You'll find out. I was actually thinking it was someone else, so the plot twist was a nice surprise, even if it meant re-thinking one of my favorite characters, although I'm still not sure what to think (which is why I am glad to already be 50 pages into Book 7).

This book is definitely darker and more serious than the previous one, which was darker than the one before. It provides yet more of the background we need to truly understand, along with Harry, just what he's up against in Voldemort and just how important his role is. This is such a credit to JK Rowling as she writes to an older and older audience each time and definitely does not write down to them.

However, the ending, which is quite shocking, raised lots and lots of questions, and so almost felt like a teaser for the next book, which is annoying enough (in a GOOD way, mind you) when you have the next book on the shelf, but I can only imagine how all you poor folks felt who read this when it first came out!

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