Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Harry Potter

Paperback, 251 pages

English language

Published Nov. 24, 2013 by Bloomsbury.

ISBN:
9781408849934
OCLC Number:
879746357

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4 stars (4 reviews)

Harry Potter receives an ominous warning from a house-elf at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry he returns to the school at the end of the summer, terrible things will happen. But return Harry must.

His second year begins with a newDefence Against the Dark Arts' teacher, Quidditch training and the intensification of old rivalries. Then the warning starts to ring true, as mysterious words are daubed on a wall, students are attacked and Ron's sister, Ginny, disappears. And so the search for Salazar Slytherin's heir begins, with the mystery pointing Harry to a clandestine chamber and a deadly creature at its heart. --back cover

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Review of 'Harry Potter a tajemná komnata' on 'Goodreads'

1 star

The second book in this series is still written in present tense. It gets slightly worse though, as sentences dealing with the relative past are formed incorrectly.

The author’s A/Ns get worse, too.

Harry has some successes and otherwise keeps being his oblivious self.

And then, in the midst of a chapter, without this being recognisable, the author explodes the fourth wall, and the fifth to go with it, and switches to their PoV and basically deals with the rest of the year (which is just most of it) in a short bullet-point list and ends it. Just like that.

This is utterly insulting.

The only saving grace might be that the author hates Year 2 and might recover a bit for Year 3… might. But nothing of that is published yet.

Woah, going from five stars to one in just 10½ rather short chapters. (Even less, considering most …