A review by booksoversecondbreakfast
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling

adventurous mysterious medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.25

This is such an important book of a beloved series, so I can't rate this too low, but this is one a rare book where I feel the movie is better than the book.

Compared to the rest of the books in this series, this one kind of drags on in the middle, presents Hermione too one-dimensionally (I'm so tired of the one-dimensional bookworm trope... give her some more complexity!), and gets painfully cheesy during the 'big reveal' section of the book (I huffed when
Snape popped out from under the invisibility cloak in the Shrieking Shack
.)

I do really enjoy the big twist at the end and about the use of the
time turner
during the book's climax, however. All in all, this book is not my favorite of the HP series, but the series is iconic that I strongly feel that anyone should give this book at least one read-through in their lifetime.
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