Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Price is a good movie that progresses the storyline in the now epic battle between Harry Potter and Lord Voldemort. Before I talk about any of the other acting in the movie, much must be said about Alan Rickman’s portrayal of Severus Snape. The man is brilliant. Each word he speaks during the movie is embroiled with the hate that you know Snape has for Harry’s very existence and, at the same time, it is mixed with the hidden love that Potter fans know Snape had for Harry’s mother. For those of you who aren’t Harry Potter fans, Rickman is the same guy who played the bad guy in the first Die Hard, Hans Gruber. For this fan, it’s safe to say that without actors like Rickman, Smith, and Carter (more on them in a minute) this movie would be mediocre at best.

Two quick mentions for Maggie Smith and Helena Bonham Carter who play Minerva McGonagall and Bellatrix Lestrange, respectively. They’re fantastic. Smith brings the class and dignity that one would expect of her to a role in fantasy movie that could be very easy to screw up. However, the poise and calmness that Smith adds to her character is noticeable and a good touch. On the complete opposite end of the spectrum, no one could be a better Bellatrix Lestrange than Carter – a woman who has that crazy person look about her at all times! Carter’s ability to play a crazy person is evident in this movie and I think she really steps up to the plate and hits a home run as a lunatic. Excellent work by both of these talented actresses.

Daniel Radcliffe continues to do a good job as Harry Potter, though Radcliffe is aging quicker than they can film these movies!

Fans of the books know the plot of this movie, but the big event that takes place is the death of Albus Dumbledore at the hand (wand?) of Snape. Again, if you want to see good acting, then watch these two extremely talented actors in this critical scene for both the movie and the series. The reservation that Snape shows before he carries out the most secret of missions is tangible on the screen. And the way that he completes the mission (killing Dumbledore) with such nonchalance is performed brilliantly.

That scene alone is worth the price of admission.

This is a movie that Harry Potter fans have probably already gone out to see. But for those of you who haven’t seen it, you may want to consider giving it shot just for the acting of Rickman, Smith, and Carter alone. I think you’ll enjoy it.

I haven’t seen the movie yet, but I do plan on seeing it once I get back from my trip to Nashville later this week. I did see the earlier movies, though, and I have been impressed at how the movies are maturing much like the books matured.

At the same time, I don’t think that the people behind the movie had much of a choice – what with all of the main actors all entering their late teens and early twenties! Anyway, here is some more information on the movie from the Los Angeles Times:

After muggles packed the midnight shows, “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” quickly slowed down at the box office and resembled, well, the last “Potter” movie.

The sixth film in the Warner Bros. series based on the bestselling books sold a studio-estimated $159.7 million worth of tickets in the U.S. from Wednesday through Sunday, exactly $20 million more than the last installment, “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix,” did in its first five days in July 2007.

About $11 million of that difference can be attributed to the nearly 8% rise in ticket prices from 2007, according to data from the National Assn. of Theatre Owners. The other $9 million came from midnight shows Wednesday, when “Half-Blood Prince” earned $22.2 million. “Order of the Phoenix,” by contrast, earned $12 million from midnight shows when it also debuted on a Wednesday.

Pretty crazy, huh? I need to make a movie that brings in $400 million worldwide in a matter of five days!

Been-there-done-that, awkward, Harry Potter, brilliant graphics, so-so story, great story, horrible, poor camera views, abysmal acting, tired, old, fun to watch, good (though darker) family movie, pretty much what I expected, Lord of the Rings, random

And it’s that last adjective – random – that I think carries throughout the entire movie. For example, the four siblings are randomly drawn back into Narnia after Prince Caspian blows a magical horn. We get about 2 minutes of the family in the real world before they are sucked into a Harry Potter-like train scene where they wind up in their fantasy land after the train goes away.

Skip FAR ahead to the end of the movie. You have Susan running up to Prince Caspian and giving him one of the most awkward kisses in movie history. It was out of place and inappropriate for the scene and really took away from the storyline where Susan and Peter will never be coming back to Narnia. I don’t know why they tried to wedge the love story in there, but I guess that’s how movies are these days.

A little bit before the end of the movie you have two more random scenes. The first is Aslan randomly appearing in the forest to save Lucy. Yeah, I paid attention and I know what was going on here in terms of the siblings needing to prove themselves to Aslan in order to have him come back. Frankly, this aspect of the story sucked. It had a poor setup (due in part to the horrible acting by Georgie Henley as Lucy) and it had a random and awkward payoff (Aslan comes in and saves the day – boring). The few minutes where the White Witch almost made a comeback was MUCH more intriguing than the poor storyline that was Aslan in this movie.

And since I just mentioned it, Georgie Henley was not good in this movie at all. AT ALL. She has got to be one of the worst child actors out there right now. I understand Disney’s need to keep all of the same characters and even I would say that I’d rather see her playing Lucy than someone else, but damn – someone give the girl some acting lessons.

The second random scene at the end of the movie was the water man who came and destroyed all of the Telmarines. In the Lord of the Rings – The Fellowship of the Ring, Eowyn talks about how the power of her people will protect the Hobbits if they can only cross the river. Then she says a little magic diddy after she crosses the river and the water rises to destroy the Nazgul chasers. It seems to me that Director Andrew Adamson must have watched this scene way too much because the battle-ending scene at the end of Narnia was far too similar. Again, I go back to my list of adjectives and been-there-done-that.

Then you have the use of killer trees (again, a la the Lord of the Rings). While I didn’t really want to see this in Narnia (I already saw Lord of the Rings, which is a much better movie, many times), I admit that I don’t have too much of a problem with it. For those of you that don’t know, CS Lewis (author of The Chronicles of Narnia) and JRR Tolkien (author of The Lord of the Rings) were friends and a sort of pen pals. They were both disgusted at the post-industrial society that the Western world had created where the environment was trampled on a daily basis. This is why you see a reliance on the strength of nature in both of their novel series.

It looks like this movie is being written off as a stinker already, too. As the folks at The-Numbers.com suggest, “Weekend Estimates: Caspian Second Disappointment of Summer.” It looks like Caspian has made $56.5 million so far while Ironman is up around $222 million. None of this matters, though, as Indiana Jones is going to house the entire box office.

And yet after all of this criticism, I don’t think that Narnia was a bad movie…I just don’t think it was a good movie. I guess if you have young ones and you want to keep them busy for two hours (two and a half – commercials at the beginning of the movie), then you should go out and see this at a matinee (no need to spend the extra money to go any later). However, if you’re a fan of the novels – and God bless you if you could get through Prince Caspian as a novel – I suggest going at a time of the day when you’re not going to spend a lot to see the movie or just waiting for it to come out on DVD.

The first thing that I want to say about this seventh and final installment of the Potter series is that the last 100 or so pages did exactly what the tens of millions of Harry Potter fans needed it to do: it wrapped up the loose ends and then gave a quick snapshot of 19 years into the future (more on that later). The brilliance of Rowling’s final chapters make the dissatisfaction of other finales become more pronounced…

One of the things that is especially well done in the final book is the story of Albus Dumbledore, his family history, and the introduction of his brother, Aberforth. The pesky Rita Skeeter makes her way back into the story as a filthy, low-down reporter once again. The climax of the Dumbledore storyline comes in two scenes, surprisingly. The first is when Aberforth meets Harry and explains his side of the story around his mother and sister’s deaths. The second is when Albus meets Harry in King’s Station after Harry is “killed” – or in proper terms – after Voldemort destroys the Horcrux hidden within Harry. More on that scene in a minute. I cite this scene specifically because it shows the younger fans of these novels that even the all-knowing, seemingly all-powerful, and inherently “good” character that was Albus Dumbledore had his flaws in life. A resentment towards his responsibilities as the oldest member of his family, a lust for ultimate power, and a predisposition towards telling half-truths are some of the many flaws in Albus. This is a great lesson for the reader as it shows that even the best of the best have their hidden secrets – this subplot made Albus Dumbledore more human.

Another part of the story was excellently written revolved around the Malfoy family and Dumbledore’s constant assertion throughout the series that love is the strongest force out there. Voldemort’s inability to understand this concept is displayed as he constantly bosses around Draco Malfoy in his mother and father’s presence after he takes over their home. Though it is not written, I suspect that the devolution of her son in front of her fellow Death Eaters awakens that deep magic that Lily Potter used to protect Harry when Voldemort attacked. One could guess that this deep magic is simply love, but that is for Rowling to talk about since these are her books and her creations. Narcissa’s betrayal against Voldemort is perfect story swerve that leads us to a magnificent final scene.

In this final scene, Voldemort is outside of a broken Hogwarts demanding that all surrender to him as he has the “dead” Harry Potter at his feet. Thanks to a few giant distractions and an onslaught attack by magical creatures including the centaurs of the Forbidden Forest, Harry is able to sneak away as the Second Battle of Hogwarts begins. These final scenes are satisfying for a few reasons from this point forward. First, you get four epic-style duels between the series’ good and evil characters. It begins with Voldemort dueling with Professors McGonagall and Slughorn and the Auror Kingsley Shacklebolt. Finally, after seven books, these professors are allowed to show their true magical prowess! A second duel is taking place between Bellatrix Lestrange (who easily becomes the most evil witch on the planet during book seven) and Hermione Granger, Luna Lovegood, and Ginny Weasley. When Ginny nearly dies from one of Bellatrix’s spells, Mrs. Weasley jumps in front of the girls yelling, “NOT MY DAUGHTER, YOU BITCH!”

Easily the best line of the book – that instantly made Mrs. Weasley one of my favorite characters.

Mrs. Weasley goes on to kill Bellatrix in what had to be Rowling’s way of showing that the deep magic that is “love” will always overcome the lust and destruction that is evil. When Voldemort sees this, though, he is enraged and attempts to attack Mrs. Weasley, which leads to Harry revealing himself (and shocking everyone in the room). What follows next is brilliantly written as Harry shows his intelligence by logically proving that he is in possession of a stronger wand than Voldemort’s Elder Wand. When both wizards perform their “signature” spells, Harry’s logic proves true as he acquires Voldemort’s wand and kills him on the spot.

There are other magnificent scenes depicted in this book including the Gringott’s break-in and escape on the blind dragon, the torture of Hermione as Dobby saves the gang in the Malfoy basement, and the opening sequence when Hedwig dies as seven Harry Potters leave Privet Drive at the same time. Which brings me to another matter in this book and all of Rowling’s books – death of the supporting characters. While we are not hit with major deaths from any of the core group of characters, we are hit with Severus Snape, Fred Weasley, Colin Creevey, Mad-Eye Moody, Remus Lupin, Nymphadora Tonks and her father, Dobby, and Hedwig’s death in the final installment of the series. Other characters are killed including Minister Scrimegour and Bathilda Bagshot, but the big deaths in the book are really of Lupin, Tonks, and Fred (at least I think so).

Rowling showed another act of brilliance when she included an epilogue, showing the main characters 19 years into the future. As one could have predicted, Harry and Ginny Weasley are now married and have three children: James Sirius Potter, Albus Severus Potter, and Lily Potter. It’s obvious who the children are named after. Ron and Hermione are also married with a child and we are also shown Draco Malfoy with his son. The most telling part of his appearance is the slight nod he gives Harry and Ron on the platform as their children board the train to Hogwarts. From my perspective, this shows the reader that the Death Eater movement is truly gone and that Malfoy has obviously learned the error of his ways. Good stuff.

Now, pulling myself out of the Harry Potter world for a minute, I think the true magnificence of Rowling’s final book is the fact that it is final and there is a definite ending. Unlike other major entertainment phenomena, the Harry Potter series has paid off for the fans who invested a decade’s worth of time, effort, and enthusiasm for the books. Rowling justly rewards Potter fans with a story that gets progressively “grown up” over the course of the seven books and a story that comes to a definitive ending. Not to mention that Rowling breaks with current trend of having some shady of gray be the ultimate winner. In the Harry Potter series, good clearly defeats evil and the heroes are rewarded with what appear to be full, healthy lives during the glimpse that we see 19 years after the final battle. It was actually a refreshing change to read such a decisive ending.

If you haven’t figured it out yet, I give this book my highest recommendation and if you are not a Harry Potter fan, than I would recommend the entire series to you (even if you know what happens in the final pages of the final book). A job well done by J. K. Rowling.

I thought that the movie version of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix was okay – nothing spectacular. Not too bad, not an award-winning film, but certainly not a bad movie by any means. There was so much more in the book in terms of details, yet the movies provide a great visuals for future readings (but of course, there is only one book left to read so it doesn’t really matter any more, huh?). The ending fight scene in this movie is very well done as is the part played by Imelda Staunton as Dolores Umbridge.

For those of you that don’t know, Umbridge is a snobby, giggly bureaucrat who comes in and takes over the magical Hogwart’s Academy. This is a role that you’ve got to have real talent to play because the character needs to conform to a variety of descriptions, which Staunton does well.

Severus Snape is also played brilliantly again by Alan Rickman as is Albus Dumbledore by Michael Gambon. Of course, Daniel Radcliffe was great as Harry Potter (and thank God he was fully clothed throughout the entire movie). The rest of the teenagers in the cast also performed well. There is a certain manner of their performance that is very “regular.”

By that I mean that you can watch one Harry Potter movie and then watch the next and feel as though there is very little break in the character developments, which is great. This is something that the novels accomplish by simply repeating a ton of information (J. K. Rowling isn’t writing hundreds upon hundreds of pages with 100% brand new material, folks – maybe 80% new at best). Anyway, it’s nice to have a smooth character development with the characters in the movies.

That being said, the Potter movies are facing a big problem in the coming years – namely that these “kids” are all hitting and completing puberty! There’s something about having young children begin these movie roles and then having grown-ups in the final movies that doesn’t quite jive with the books. I mean Radcliffe (who turns 18 next week) has already performed NAKED on the stage in London! Seems sort of weird that he’s playing a teenage wizard of 15 or 16 years old and then he’s naked next to a horse in between movies. Blech!

So here’s hoping that the movies continue to come out quickly for obvious reasons. As for The Order of the Phoenix, I don’t think you need to go out and see this one in the theater unless you’ve got little buggers who won’t stop screaming until you take them to see it! This is probably a good movie for a movie night at the house or a bored afternoon DVD rental. Good performances by all, though.

The only thing that this film is good for is to put faces with names. Other than the obvious lack of including all, most, or even a majority of the storyline features from the book, there is no contiguous logic in the story. It’s like watching a bunch of scenes from what could have been a much, MUCH longer movie. It’s disjointed and there are not enough explanations in the two and a half hours that the thing tarries on for.

I will say that the special effects and wardrobe are done very well. So was the casting and make-up. Warner Brothers does do a good job of giving you a look at what Hogwarts and the characters would probably look like in real life.

But in terms of telling a story, this movie sucked. If you’re a non-Harry Potter fan, then I would suggest not using this film as a basis to judge whether or not you’d like the series.

Albus Dumbledore’s death was long overdue in terms of the storyline. Why, you ask? Because his presence made certain things too easy. Harry Potter knew that he could always run to Dumbledore and get his problems either solved or just-about solved. Makes for a boring story in the long run. Killing off this seemingly omniscient, omnipresent character really does make sense, though given the fact that Dumbledore was the only person that Lord Voldemort ever feared – it probably should have been Voldemort that killed him in the end.

Severus Snape killing Dumbledore wasn’t really a shock, but here is another problem that I have with Rowling’s story. She spends five books building up Snape as someone that Dumbledore trusts while she also builds up that Dumbledore is the wisest wizard of his age and that Snape is a real bastard to the kids in the school. From the get-go, some of this logic just didn’t work. For example, our muggle-equivalent to having Snape (a known Death Eater) teach at Hogwarts would be for a convicted sex offender to work in a Sesame Street amusement park! Yet, there was no parental uprising over his hiring?

My other issue with Snape being the one to kill Dumbledore is that it sends a really horrific message to the legions of children around the world who are reading this story. For literally thousands of pages they read how Dumbledore is a kind, loving man who sees the best in people – a truly great lesson for the kids out there. Then they learn that even though the world seems set against Snape because of his past and his present malicious ways, that Dumbledore still trusts him and expects others to trust him. And then – Snape kills the loving, old wizard. What do we learn here? That if you suspect someone is a sneak then you should NOT give them the benefit of the doubt and give them a chance? What exactly is the lesson that the kids out there learn from this killing other than that they shouldn’t trust people with bad histories? A very bad lesson indeed. Unless Snape was in on the death (see link below).

Then there is the practicality of it all when you think back to the memory that Harry saw in the pensieve where his father and Sirius tortured Snape. Why didn’t Harry apologize for his father and Sirius when he saw that memory? It was obvious that they were in the wrong and that Snape did nothing to provoke that attack. Shouldn’t the lesson here have been to be the better man and apologize for the sins of the past?

Oh, and I didn’t like how the book opened with the muggle Prime Minister waiting for a call from that “wretched” President. Sure, Rowling didn’t name who the President was or from what country he was from, but come on…what a completely unnecessary and awkward cheap shot.

The Horcruxes – eh, I don’t take too many issues with them. Honestly, I think that it’s a way to prolong the story and for Rowling to make a thicker seventh book. I also think that Harry Potter’s scar is a horcrux and thus Harry will need to die before the end of this story…

And Rowling is getting a bit loquacious in her writing style. A lot of what is in the book as “filler” was, at times, tedious to tread through. However, from what the internet tells me (and if it’s on the internet, it must be true), we aren’t going to have to suffer through any more Quidditch play-by-plays in the final book.

Now, I have to say that I enjoyed the Harry Potter/Ginny Weasley love affair much more than the Cho Chang one in the previous novel. It was well played out – good job there. I didn’t, however, like the way it “ended” with Harry saying that he couldn’t be with Ginny because Voldemort would go after her again. Seemed like too easy of a cop out to me. And, quite frankly, sixteen and fifteen year olds shouldn’t be concerned about whether they can “be” with someone for a prolonged period of time.

I also enjoyed the reintroduction of Fleur into the storyline as Bill Weasley’s fiance. It provided some entertaining moments in the beginning of the book and a touching scene at the end where she and Mrs. Weasley embrace over the werewolf-battered Bill Weasley. Sticking with the love stories, the Ron/Hermione love story is coming along nicely, too.

And I couldn’t write a review of this book without saying how much I absolutely love the Luna Lovegood character. She’s a riot! I could watch an entire movie that dealt solely with Luna and what she does in a day. Fantastic bit of writing by Rowling with this character. I found myself hoping that Luna would show up in some (if not all) of the chapters in the book. Her whole airy manner is thoroughly entertaining. I mean I even laughed out loud when she went on about the Auror scheme to take over the Ministry at Slughorn’s Christmas Party. Genius!

Professor Trelawney – brilliant! Another great character who is completely “out there!” I love it.

Finally (before I write a book myself), I have to say that one of the best parts of this book was all of the conspiracy theories that spawned from it! Take a gander at this page that supposes Snape and Dumbledore were quite aware of what was going on and that Snape would kill the Headmaster that night. The only other “clue” that I would add to what is presented here is that throughout the book, Harry tries to alert Dumbledore to the Malfoy/Snape connection and their apparent plot to do “something bad.” The most that Dumbledore responds to this is that he is not concerned about it, but he is aware of it. Of course, if Snape was killing Dumbledore by the Headmaster’s own request…then why would Dumbledore be concerned about it, right?

Interesting stuff to think about until the next Potter book comes out…

This book, though, also brings more darkness into the series. As GGL would say, this is the darkest of the Harry Potter books (so far). From the twisted scene of the Longbottoms in St. Mungo’s to the fierce battle between the Order and the Death Eaters, this book at least has some gusto in terms of mixing it up a bit.

I can understand, for cinematic reasons, the need to include the Cho/Harry love spat. Yet, I sometimes think that these parts of the book get in the way of what could be a great story. Quite frankly, no one gives a hoot if Cho is mental because of Cedric dying and Harry is a real “git” when it comes to the ladies. But once again, I read this from a 25 year-old perspective when the general age group of Harry Potter readers is 10 years my younger, so this may be a moot point.

The length of the book is certainly something to consider when getting ready to read it. I came home for Thanksgiving with just a few things and this book was one of them. When I got home, I was less than halfway done with the book, yet last night (after dinner), I had so much free time that I actually finished the book. This is something to keep in mind – you need long, unused expanses of time to get a good reading session in with this book!

What else can I say about this book? It’s nice to get a view of Harry and Snape needing to work together, though I wonder how this will come across in the movie version of the story. Also, it was nice that we got the background on Sirius’ family and his relation to pretty much all of the “bad guys” since he comes from a family of dark wizards. Interesting stuff.

I thought the prophecy part at the end of the book left something to be desired. One has to die, right? Well, duh! Dumbledore’s speech was pretty good in terms of explaining a lot of the finer points of the previous 850+ pages!

For Harry Potter fans, I obviously have to recommend the book so you can continue reading the story. But in terms of storytelling, it seemed at times that Rowling wrote parts of the book so they would be good for a video game, parts that would be good for a movie, and parts that were too Da Vinci Code-esque. Yet, whenever I criticize her too much, I always remember two things. First, she’s writing for preteens and teenagers (though her original audience is now in their twenties). Second, the Harry Potter series is her first go-around with writing professionally in terms of mass publication. The exaggerations and over use of trickery are to be expected in what is essentially a novice’s writing.

All in all a decent book that advanced some storylines and moved the story forward.

The Goblet of Fire begins with those bastard Dursleys again and their nastiness towards Harry. Though, this time around Uncle Vernon knows that the escaped maniac Sirius Black is Harry’s Godfather and that Harry and Sirius have a close relationship. Needless to say, Uncle Vernon shuts his mouth a little bit more when dealing with Harry. There is a funny scene in the beginning of the book where the Weasleys come to take Harry away before the end of the summer and “meet” the Dursleys – very funny.

From there we are taken to the Quidditch World Cup and introduced to some new characters like Winky, Mr. Crouch, and Mr. Bagman. Winky is Mr. Crouch’s house elf (remember Dobby?) who is accused of mustering the “Dark Mark” (Voldemort’s sign). This sends the entire wizarding world into a frenzy since the Dark Mark hasn’t been seen in more than thirteen years. Also, this is apparently the mark that appears before Voldemort and his crew, “the Death Eaters,” would kill someone.

Next Harry, Hermione, and Ron are off to Hogwart’s for another year when they find out that there is a tournament to be held at their school this year. Randomly in the beginning of the book, there is discussion of other wizarding schools around the world and the concept of Harry Potter’s world being bigger than just England and Hogwarts begins to set in (which is good!).

From there the gang meets Mad-Eye Moody and a whole bunch of other crazy stuff happens, not the least of which is the return of Lord Voldemort in what can only be described as a creepy, well-written piece of literature by Ms. Rowling. I will say, though, that towards the end of the novel there is a bit of stone-walling done by the Ministry of Magic that ultimately does not fit in with the previous description of the wizarding community or the storyline and makes for an awkward read. Having read almost half of the fifth Harry Potter book at this point, I can say that this awkwardness carries well into the fifth book and has not been resolved yet.

The Tri-Wizard Tournament and the introduction of non-Hogwarts characters makes this the best Harry Potter book that I’ve read so far. For those of you who are a bit older than the general Harry Potter crowd like I am, if you can suffer through the first two books and their obviously slant towards children and make it to the second two books (3 and 4), then you’re in for a treat.

I recommend the fourth book in the Harry Potter series: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

However, after reading the third book in the series, I have to say that I’m starting to agree with some of the praise for this series. Reading the Harry Potter books has been extremely enjoyable from the first page through to the last. So on to some points about the book…

I really don’t like Draco Malfoy – he’s a little bitch. In the same respect, I think that Snape has some trickery about him, but for some reason I think that he’s ultimately erring on the side of good instead of evil. But I guess we’ll see in the coming books. The Dursleys are also an ever-constant source of aggravation because they’re such pricks. But I suppose that Rowling has got something good in store for them when the time comes. I’d much rather not read about them at all because they’re slime.

Speaking of family relations, I thought it was great when Sirius Black offered for Harry to come live with him when his name was cleared. Too bad that whole thing was dashed away when Lupin turned into a werewolf and scared everyone on their way back to the castle. Potter, Ron, and Hermione are becoming much more developed characters in this book than in the first two – which is only normal, I suppose. I don’t like that some of the actions and thoughts of the characters are extremely juvenile (but then I remember that I’m reading Harry Potter and ask myself what did I think I was going to get?). For example, the last thing on Harry’s mind should be a Quidditch match when he just found out that his parents were betrayed by Sirius Black (which, as we find out, is untrue).

Quidditch is becoming a little more interesting, though if I hadn’t seen the movies I would have no idea on what actually takes place during the game! Dumbledore is also proving to be a very interesting, very likeable character. The fact that he allows Hermione and Harry to go back in time to save innocent lives (even though that breaks the law), is a nice twist.

I’ve already begun to read the next book in the series and a few pages into it, I can say that it looks like it’ll be as good as the last three! More reviews to come…