Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

"Reading these for the first time at age 37 and I highly recommend them! Wonderful and full of magic!"

"I really loved this book. I feel like it’s definitely a must if you’re into reading. Obviously it’s geared more towards elementary aged students, but even with me being in high school I still really enjoyed it. "

"The chamber of secrets is open, what will Harry and the gang do? "

"Watched the movie "

"Not my favorite from the series but it’s really good! Easy to read for kids. I don’t recommend if you don’t like spiders and slugs."

"4/5. I found this book extremely light! The audiobook made it more enjoyable as I have struggled to reread the series multiple times. The voice actor seriously helped the tone of the characters, and he made them feel lively again. I do wish there was more explaining of the conflict as it occurred in the next to last chapter, but ultimately, Chamber of Secrets is a good book. I will always use the audiobook now!"

"Not as good as the rest of the series "

"All of the HP books will obviously be a re-read, but I still have some things to say. Firstly, it is so obvious how much better JK gets at writing these books (and only at that, we ignore any other parts of her life) as they progress. This book, more than any of the others I would say, is written as a mystery novel. I love the way she laces many different mysteries and won't let any of them be fully solved until the last pages of the book, from Percy's strangeness, to Ginny's fears, to the Chamber of Secrets, to Harry's very identity. She balances things like schoolwork and deep sleuthing so well that the story, however magical and far-fetched, seems so much more real. Like any mystery, re-reading it gives the audience the ability to want to kick the characters for not realizing what now seems so obvious, but only because of the way that the clues were so carefully laid out. My one true complaint is that the end is so neatly tied up and in so few words. After the beautiful storytelling throughout the chapters, the climax is the second to last chapter and everything happens so quickly. I honestly think the movie does a better job making the scenes in the Chamber more exciting, as it takes Harry a full 10 minutes to defeat Tom Riddle, while in the book it takes him about 3 paragraphs. Everything had been building for so long to a point that I feel could've been so much more exciting. It's really only in the re-read that I can see how unexciting it was, since I know how much better she gets at telling those stories. "

"I really liked the part where the ford anglia saved Harry and Ron from the acromantulas in the forbidden forest "

"This book (and series) is what got me hooked into reading constantly"