Order of the Phoenix: a brief review

taken from goodreads.com

Another Harry Potter book gets crossed off the list and I'm well on my way to completing the whole series. If I'm totally and 100% honest, I'm getting a little tired of Hogwarts and Company, and I'm ready to be done with the whole thing. I'm told, though, that this book is the worst/most boring of them all and that the last two are "incredible," so I press ahead. I am taking a break and listening to Mindy Kaling's book first before powering through the rest of this series, and I'm super stoked about it. I'm only on chapter 3 of 59 and I'm already in love.

Harry returns to Hogwarts yet again, this time for his fifth year at school. Before making it to school, though, he gets brought to Sirius Black's childhood home which is currently serving as the home base of the Order of the Phoenix, a secret alliance of witches and wizards working to defeat the uprising of Voldemort. Harry and his friends go back to school without their dear friend Hagrid who is mysteriously missing, and instead find that the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher is calculatingly evil. Things are tense at school, things get crazy with Voldemort, and there's a sort-of good ending that sets the stage for book 6.

So like I said, it wasn't my favorite. But it was there and I suppose it had to be there to continue the plot, and I do have faith that the next two will be good. I'll get to them, but first, Mindy.

Here's my progress so far on my 2015 reading goals:

• Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand
• Monster, by Walter Dean Myers
• Dash and Lily's Book of Dares, by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
• The Rosie Project, by Graeme Simsion
• Eleanor and Park, by Rainbow Rowell
• Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?, by Mindy Kaling
• Yes Please, by Amy Poehler
• A Long Way Down, by Nick Hornby
• This is Where I Leave You, by Jonathan Tropper
• Wild, by Cheryl Strayed
• Serena, by Ron Rash
• Prisoner of Azkaban, by J.K. Rowling
• Goblet of Fire, by J.K. Rowling
• Order of the Phoenix, by J.K. Rowling
• Half Blood Prince, by J.K. Rowling
• Deathly Hallows, by J.K. Rowling

Since it's only March and I'm almost done with this list (I've finished Dash and Lily's Book of Dares and am currently reading both Eleanor and Park and Mindy's book) I'm pretty excited to reevaluate my goals for the year. I think once I finish the rest of these I'll make a new goals list for the rest of the year. Yay for making reading happen, one way or another.