Harry Potter et la Chambre des Secrets

Folio junior -- 961

Paperback, 361 pages

French language

Published May 11, 1999 by Gallimard Jeunesse.

ISBN:
9782070524556
OCLC Number:
670384903

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4 stars (4 reviews)

Harry Potter fait une deuxième rentrée fracassante en voiture volante à l'école des sorciers. Cette deuxième année ne s'annonce pas de tout repos… surtout depuis qu'une étrange malédiction s'est abattue sur les élèves. Entre les cours de potion magique, les matchs de quidditch et les combats de mauvais sorts, Harry trouvera-t-il le temps de percer le mystère de la Chambre des Secrets? Un livre magique pour sorciers et sorcières confirmés!

--back cover

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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 …

Subjects

  • Fantasy
  • School & Education
  • Children: Grades 4-6
  • Juvenile Fiction
  • Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction
  • Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Magic
  • Humorous Stories