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 - This, as they say, is where the plot thickensBook 3 I'd say is the unofficial beginning of the series. Books 1 and 2 were amazing and did their job which was introduce the characters, explain their stories, and shed more light on the initial things that we needed to know. Well now, step in book 3 and here we are at the story where darkness starts creeping into Harry's world. Where your mind is wandering as to who did what and where and why. Where the cute, childrens book turns into a story where you find yourself immersed in. Use caution reading this, book 3 of 7, for this will be the chapter in the life of Harry Potter that will lunge its hook in you and refuse to let it go. It will plant a seed that will not be satisfied until you learn what are the Deathly Hallows. Rating: - I love being read to!I now have all the Harry Potter books on CD as well as in print. I love listening to them. The narrator is wonderful with the different voices for the characters. I admit I am quite familiar with the stories, to the point I can use them to focus on and let myself be read to sleep. I plan to share them with my grandchildren as they get old enough to enjoy them. Rating: - Dive deeper into Harry's personal lifeHarry does have family! A "crazy" god-father that he is completely unaware of having until this book. A great mystery book in the series. It will have you wanting more! Rating: - The series truly begins.I love Prisoner of Azkaban. I think that this was the novel that really hooked me into the series. I have a hard time writing a literary review of any of the Rowling novels mainly because I do not feel like I'm reading a novel when I read these books, I feel like I'm on vacation. I'm transported into another world and forget to look at the subtext or deeply analyze anything that the writer is trying to say because it is just to much fun to just read it. This is a book to read when you are stressed out because of your real life. Try reading it when you are in a wretched mood and see if you are not instantly a little bit happier. Harry begins to evolve in this novel and the books from here begin to feel a little bit more "grown up". To me, this book is virtually the first in the series that is now so infamous. The characters are impossible to not fall in love with. Rowling seems to have her feet firmly planted in the ground at this point in the series and I knew when I finished the final pages that the series could only get better. Which of course it does. Rating:  - Better than the First TwoI really enjoyed it and would have given 5 stars except for the fact that I'm a sucker for happy endings. It was sad that Harry couldn't keep his newly found friends. I did find that the writing matured as Harry did, which probably made an easier read.
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