Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: Illustrated Edition

GOOD - you can buy a 100 of editions of HP in the market but this the best harry potter edition so far, JIM KAY drawn the words of Rowling with true magic. the mood, theme are well executed with proper usage of colors and sketches. highly excited for the 5, 6 and 7th book to come out. BAD - my book came out with little scratches on the cover (dont know if the problem is with this seller)

Excellent, as usual, work by Jim Kay bring to life yet another installment in the Harry Potter story. The book itself is large and heavy and makes an impression. Great as a gift - whether to someone else or yourself.

Ah, the Goblet of Fire. It's always hovering among my top two favorite books of the series (up there with The Half-Blood Prince and The Chamber of Secrets), and I SERIOUSLY enjoyed reading it again! Fortunately enough, this book not only fit in with my most recent oral read-through of the series, but it was the first time I read it since I began my goal of reading all of the Hugo Award-winning novels (The Goblet of Fire won in 2001)! Given that I've read this book many, many times (it was the most-recently-published book when I was finally allowed to read the series in December 2002) and will circle back to it many more times in the future, in this review I'll just focus on the parts I enjoyed the most this time around. I'll also skip my usual "brief synopsis" paragraph, trusting in the well-deserved global Harry Potter phenomenon and the assumption that readers of this review will know the story. :) *THE WIZARDING WORLD AT ITS MOST EXPANSIVE: I absolutely LOVE the scene where Harry, Ron, and Hermione walk around the Quidditch World Cup campsite and we get our first real taste of the scope of the wizarding world. Reading about the witches setting up the star-spangled "Salem Witches' Institute" banner, the wizards roasting meat over a bush fire, and the miles of elaborately-built and elaborately-decorated tents really helps bring home the fact that wizards live everywhere! Of course, the extended international magical community remains a focus of the book as the Triwizard Tournament unfolds. *EXCELLENT SIDE-PLOTS: The Goblet of Fire is WAY bigger than the first three books in the series, and I think it was the first time that J.K. Rowling got to stretch her legs and explore a wide range of side-plots. I absolutely loved them during this read-through. Hermione's S.P.E.W. and Rita Skeeter vendettas, Draco Malfoy's "Support Cedric Diggory" badges, Hagrid's Blast-Ended Screwts, and (best of all) the Yule Ball's "Unexpected Task" always pull through! *STILL LOVING MAD-EYE: Mad-Eye Moody is one of my all-time favorite Harry Potter characters and (though I know it isn't technically "him"), nowhere does he shine more brightly than in the Goblet of Fire. The Malfoy-Ferret Transfiguration Vignette is one of the very, very, very best moments in the entire series. *GREAT RED HERRING: I particularly enjoyed the thought that went into putting forward Ludo Bagman as the red herring-the alternative to Barty Crouch Jr. as Voldemort's loyal Death Eater at Hogwarts. When you know what you're looking for, references to his possible culpability are sprinkled throughout the entire story. An alternative ending in which he was the villain would make for interesting reading! *SHOUT-OUT TO JIM KAY'S ILLUSTRATED VERSION: This was the first time I've read all the way through Jim Kay's illustrated edition, and I simply loved it. Some of my favorite pieces of art include the character profile of Ginny Weasley, the landscape shot showing Krum jumping off the Durmstrang ship into the Lake, another landscape shot of the Quidditch World Cup campsite, and the beautiful Hungarian Horntail artwork throughout the First Task. I continue to love his more-haunted-than-magical take on the wizarding world! I look forward to adding more to this review in future read-throughs. I'll love this story forever.

When Harry Potter first came out I managed to read the first 3 then stopped to have a family and then Harry was forgotten. Now I am older I have got back into the Wizarding World and it’s brilliant! I read the first 3 books on my kindle and although I have the others on ebook (thank you Kindle unlimited) I thought you can’t beat a real book and a book with illustrations will help get my imagination going! When it was delivered I thought they had sent 2 books as the parcel was very heavy! This book is HUGE it’s fantastic. A lot of people have been hating about the illustrations - do not listen to them, they are fabulous. There are a lot of pictures, small ones, double pages, single pages, page boarders, tiny badge pictures, descriptive diagrams, illustrations that you would find in a guide book, pictures on pages with writing over the top - they are all fantastic. I will admit most of the illustrations are very surreal and remind me of “The Waste Land” or “Alice in Wonderland”. The book is really well put together and has a fabulous dust cover and silk book mark. Amazon currently has it for half the rrp which is incredible value and this book will be treasured for a long time. The only ‘bad’ point is the text is quite small (even though the pages are huge) but it’s not a problem. I recommend this book for any Harry Potter fan especially if you like your drawings a bit off the wall and you don’t hold any preconceptions about how the characters should look.

Excellent quality

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