I just got the invitation to join this site from a "dear" friend of mine..hes gotten pretty popular on this site, so i’ll not reveal his name..atleast for now. I read the other revies for the same book and I was totally taken aback....this is gonna make me seem so damn cynical...but what the heck..
What follows is actually from a letter that I was writing to my friend...she hasnt read it yet, so absolutely NO spoilers in this review....
Here goes nothing
...So tell me about your BIG test?? BTW I finished harry potter and the deathly hallows today morning at 6.00
Am...was up all night reading it off the lappy thirteen hours straight,
my eyes are blood red when I finally got to sleep...now the color has
gone down a bit. About the book..well without revealing too much..or
heck..i wont reveal anything to you now...i didn’t enjoy the book as
much I had the first four...It reads too much like a movie script...too
Hollywood for my taste.
The plot and all is pretty well weaved and all
the characters have ample presence...JK madam didn’t want to dissapoint
any Ron, Hermione fans..so she wrote chunky bits for them as well....a
lot of things about Dumbledore have been revealed too..I’ll not say
anything further at this point..for the fear of my death at your
hands..hehe.
There was a theory I had come up with after the sixth(and the most
boring) book of the series had ended...and that little theory was
exactly what Mrs MoneyPants Filthyrich Rowling or MFR had in her
conniving little mind too. Like all series finales this book had
special appearances by all the seemingly forgotten characters..which i
wont name, and also all the magical places that were described in the
previous books. MFR has also sprinkled in a dose of her new-agey social
messages..that are supposed to be relevant even in the "real" world.
Some bits of this book are down-right gay...The second last chapter of
the book is THE most annoying piece of literature i’ve come across in
recent times. I’m sure hard-core potter fans will hate me for saying
this..but i’m pretty confident MFR got stuck towards the end and came
up with the lamest way out possible...even if I was the biggest jerk in
the world I would be able to describe how lame I thought that chapter
was..you really have to read it for yourself...
I think thats enough Potter bashing for now..and if it wasn’t for my
mild OCD to finish any series I have started no matter how bad or
annoying it gets towards the end..i wouldn’t have touched the book or
the previous one as well for that matter.