Book review – Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

FantasyBookReview.co.uk has now completed the review for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, JK Rowling’s fifth book of seven. The ratings for the books improves with each release and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince receives 8.9 out of 10 which places it at #8 in our list of the top 100 fantasy books of all time. This places the book on a level par with Joe Abercrombie’s Before They Are Hanged and Ursula Le Guin’s The Other Wind.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince book review

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