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Review: Harry Potter & The Prisoner of Azkaban
I Solemnly swear I am up to no good. Sirius Black is officially my favourite in the series. Anyone that can exist in Azkaban without having his soul dwindle into an empty pit deserves his happily ever after. Harry Potter is embroiled deeper and deeper into the dark workings of Voldemort. Each year his connection to him is a tangled web of mystery and suffering. Deceit and lies threaten to tear him down- loss of potential, loss of love and a deep ache that just festers. The only two anchors he has is Hogwarts and his best friends, Ron and Hermione. The summer at the Dursleys has been as terrible…
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Book Review: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
Why on earth has it taken me so long to read the massively hyped Harry Potter books? Well, when they were released I was older than its target audience and being the stroppy teenager, I was – refused to read them…After all I was capable of reading more grown-up literature, but, I was a fool! I really missed out on an awesome adventure because this thirty-two-year-old grown ass woman has loved the first book in the series. My dilemma is though, what can I add in this review that hundreds of wonderful readers haven’t already? “Call him Voldemort, Harry. Always use the proper name for things. Fear of a name…
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Review: Pan’s Labyrinth by Guillermo Del Toro & Cornelia Funke
The magic and wonder of Pan’s Labyrinth somehow escaped me the first time it came out and I have no idea how?! If you think that this is a perfect, child friendly happy ever after fairy tale you are in for a rather nasty shock. I think it’s always a risky business turning film into novel, but this dark fantasy ticks all my gothic needs in one full swoop. Ophelia is a heroine that gives us all the feels, she is a character that we can relate to in one way or another. She has that childhood naivety that we all had only to have it crushed from blow after…
