Book O' Clock: Where the magic began

Where the magic began

Posted by Sandra on Tuesday, May 1, 2012. Filed under: 2012, Best Seller, Book o Clock, Books, J.K. Rowling, Reviews

Title: Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone
Series: Harry Potter, #1
Author: J.K. Rowling
Pages: 310
Published: 1997
Read In: 2001
Rating: 6/5 :)

Ok, so it's been nearly 14 years since the first book from the Harry Potter series was published. It was a book that changed the whole world. So I feel like I have to share my review with you.

Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone was an amazing book, no doubt of all. It is MY book, THE book that changed my life and who I used to be. It might sound tad corny or exaggerated but J.K. Rowling and her magical world made me who I am today.

First of all, I read this book when I was 8 years old, Oh how the time flies... This wasn't my first book, but it was the one that drove me into the reading path, it was the book that made me realize that I wanted to read all kind of books, that I wanted to write my own stories and that I wanted to create something that someday could change someone's life. This was the book that made me fall in love with England, and without this book I wouldn't be who I am today.

I love Joanne, her literary style is amazing, so complex and easy to read at the same time, contemporary and beautiful, it's incredible how she created a whole new world and fantastic characters for us readers.

Harry is a character that defined a generation, he is the most amazing boy that could ever exist. So nice, honest, loyal, brave and has the biggest heart ever. It's really enjoyable to read about his life; how he hates living with the Dursley, how he misses his parents even though he can't remember them too well, how he finds out that he's a wizard and how he deals with the fact that he's "the boy who lived", how he starts his friendship with Ron and Hermione (the greates freaking friendship I've ever read of) and how he starts living his life in a new world, where he has as many friends as enemies. It's an amazing story about an 11 year old boy who never thought that he could belong to any place and discovers a new world, where he fits like a missing puzzle piece and where he's happy.

All of the characters are well written, and they all have their stories, so it's like you're Harry and you're meeting all these new people along the pages. Neville, Hermione, Ron, Hagrid, Dumbledore... I feel like they're all good friends of mine. I even love the evil characters. They all have that factor that make them real even when they are fictional and magical.

The plot is amazing in every single way and it is really impossible to put the book down. It is filled with adventure, action, mystery, hilarity and MAGIC.

The spells, the magical creatures, the professors, "quidditch": the best sport ever (after football of course) , the castle, the forest, the potions, the school subjects, the books.... All of these things were beyond magical!

I could go on, with my non-objective review ~~(if this could be even be called a review)~~, but all I have to say is that this is a modern classic, an epic book and epic story, with epic characters written by an epic author.