Let me preface this review by saying that I have enjoyed all the prior Harry Potter novels. I, however, did not get into this one. I understand developing the world a lot more and a lot of people could get into it. But I felt like this story dragged so much in the beginning and this is one of the few cases where I thought the movie was better than the book. 
 For starters it felt like this book dragged for the first half before any real action started to take off. I don't need constant action, I can enjoy books with mainly dramatic tension, but I just found this more annoying in Harry Potter than anything else. I understand what Rowling was aiming for, she wanted the reader to experience the anger and loneliness Harry was feeling. In some respects, I just don't think I wanted to experience it as much as she forced us to. I found Harry's anger rather frustrating to deal with, because his decision making process was so idiotic. Harry has never been good at this, but I feel like this book took it to a whole other level. 
 On aspect of Rowling's writing that I am getting really sick of is the constant blame on Snape. Even Hermoine points out that they've never been right about this assumption. But rather than consider she has a good point, they just ignore it, especially Ron. This is just so frustratingly stupid to me, that I just spent most of the time being mad about these foolish decisions. 
 Once the major parts of the book start going it becomes a great book though. One thing I liked in the movie more than the book was the room of requirement. I like how the movie had the room changing the locations where they got out. 
 Overall, I thought the book ended well, but just getting through it was so daunting that I had to rate this quite a bit lower than the others. I hope my complaints have made some sense, I realize many people enjoyed this book, but I was just not able to get into it like all the others.