A review by psychology4introverts
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious relaxing sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

This is possibly the saddest of them all and when Harry both is at his lowest and rises as his strongest, like a Phoenix almost… yes I had to write that. They really start to grow up in that book and of course it‘s a 5 star read and the audio version with Stephen Fry is just as good as the previous ones. But yet again, the movies deviate so much from the book which has a lot more detail and especially the ending is much more relatable and logical in the book. The movie just flat out changed certain facts here that needn‘t have changed, like adding Bellatrix Lestrange to the end scene - while in fact she was never there. Snape and Malfoy also are painted a lot worse in the books than in the movies. Probably my least favourite because Harry has to suffer so much and because it‘s the last one with normal Hogwarts school life in it which I happen to love to read about.