Book review - "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" by J.K. Rowling

It took a while for me to get into this - the beginning felt slow, Dobbie was incredibly annoying, and it inevitably lacked the excitement and underdog factor of the first in the series. But it got better as it went along, particularly upping the stakes - students are killed at school, Hermione is petrified - and some of it was genuinely creepy (the snake, the diary, Tom Riddle, the ending).