Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

After the first book, which was a proper cracker, the second book does a fair enough job moving the story along in interesting ways, but it maybe didn't shine quite as much as the first book. I liked the character of Gilderoy Lockhart, and the climactic battle with the Basilisk, but things seemed to otherwise progress somewhat slowly. Thankfully, the third book seems to have recovered the proper pacing.