Jane of Armies of Liberation wants to make sure that everyone’s aware that the government of Yemen is trying to silence the opposition.
( þ Dean’s World)
Harry and his friends enter their sixth year of school, as the wizarding world prepares for war with the returned Voldemort.
This one was a good deal better than the last one, which I didn’t enjoy nearly as much as I had the first four (which I can’t really rank, because I liked them all fairly equally). Harry’s not perfect, but he’s also not the jerk that he was in the previous book. He’s considerably more real in this book than in any of the previous ones, and that’s a refeshing change (though he’s still my least favorite of the main characters). This was the first book that really made me anxious for the next one, but that could be a result of the fact that there’s no real story here — it ends just as the real story starts.
All in all, I’ll rate this one 7/10.
(Spoilers in the extended entry)
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