Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Harry Potter, #2

Paperback, 256 pages

English language

Published Aug. 11, 1998 by Bloomsbury.

ISBN:
9780747538486
OCLC Number:
924779755

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4 stars (4 reviews)

Harry Potter is a wizard. He is in his second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Little does he know that this year will be just as eventful as the last... (back cover)

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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 …