Rating: WARTY! This was this author's self-published debut from 2012, and as such it's not awfully bad, but I could not get al...

Rating: WARTY! I made it about a third the way through this before I gave up because it was turning into your usual trope YA story wit...

Rating: WARTY! From an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. Errata "...and Lord Prosper like to make a good i...

Rating: WORTHY! This tome (or even tomb) is the last of the series of course, and finally brings the much-awaited confrontation between...

Rating: WORTHY! This is another Harry Potter novel that opens with no Harry Potter in sight to begin with. This is also the novel whic...

Rating: WORTHY! This novel is my favorite of all the seven in this series, but I still had issues with it, including boredom from readi...

Rating: WORTHY! Surprisingly, about half the Potter books begin without Harry taking the stage immediately. This is one of them. Vold...

Rating: WORTHY! The Prisoner of Azkaban represents the point in this series where Rowling really hit her stride. The novel was - in ov...

Rating: WORTHY! Volume two removes the contemporary Voldemort completely from the picture, but puts in his place a younger version so w...