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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
by J.K. Rowling
What am I suppose to say about this?
I loved Harry Potter. Really, I do. Very much. I loved its characters and its setting to magical bits, but if I am going to stand on a rational and analytical point and actually review this novel and this entire series, I'm going to put my inner Fangirl aside.
I have started reading Harry Potter several years ago and I have not jumped on the bandwagon immediately like almost everyone else. I did, eventually. And only now did I let my fangirl self die down a bit to give an unbiased review.
The Harry Potter series is not perfection. Far from it. It may be the most influential book series ever, but it is not perfect. It may be a masterpiece, but it wasn't a holy one.
Deathly Hollows is not a great book, though it is a good ending to our Harry Potter universe. (Cue the uncontrollable sobbing.) It has it's good points and it has its flaws. And many people refused to see it because now Harry Potter is like a holy shrine of gods and you can't touch this.
One of the main points that made all of our hardcore fans a bit disappointed is its plot and its characters and what Rowling did. We weren't given the entire bundle of war tragedies and broken homes, but the pacing of the entire book was slow and shallow and it really did not give us much character development. Harry is still a bit naive and Ron is still easily riled up and Hermione is still headstrong and Luna is still Luna and Peter Pettigrew still deserves to be thrown in a bowl of boiling cheese.
The Eldar Wand concept and the Deathly Hollows didn't really do much except to make the biggest fool out of Voldemort and give us a backstory to Albus Dumbledore, something we really needed in the last couple of books.
Even though the pacing was old and slow and at some point you really want to throw the damn thing against a wall, it is not without its glory points.
One of the best chapters that really showed off Rowling's ability to write is how she planned and narrated the action sequences. You are jumping up and down in your seat to read whether or not Harry gets through this or Ron gets through that or does Hermione survive this, your heart is in your throat and your have that mad rush to keep up with everything.
Then everything rolls into a stop and the trio are walking in a forest again.
Rowling is not a master at narration, at which point you really need to get down to the insides of a character and tell us why the hell he is doing what he is doing, when you really need that emotional angst from a character, that's when Rowling falls a bit flat, something I've noticed throughout her series.
Snape's chapter being the exception because I fucking loved that chapter. It is both raw and cruel and beautiful all at the same time and there's a war going on outside and Voldemort might be killing a dozen more trees but you don't care about any of it now because fucking Snape.
In the end, Harry Potter is a successful series, a good series that will be in our hearts forever more onwards, but it is not without it's flaws, and hopefully Rowling can continue to imporve on her storytelling to give us another masterpiece.
I loved Harry Potter. Really, I do. Very much. I loved its characters and its setting to magical bits, but if I am going to stand on a rational and analytical point and actually review this novel and this entire series, I'm going to put my inner Fangirl aside.
I have started reading Harry Potter several years ago and I have not jumped on the bandwagon immediately like almost everyone else. I did, eventually. And only now did I let my fangirl self die down a bit to give an unbiased review.
The Harry Potter series is not perfection. Far from it. It may be the most influential book series ever, but it is not perfect. It may be a masterpiece, but it wasn't a holy one.
Deathly Hollows is not a great book, though it is a good ending to our Harry Potter universe. (Cue the uncontrollable sobbing.) It has it's good points and it has its flaws. And many people refused to see it because now Harry Potter is like a holy shrine of gods and you can't touch this.
One of the main points that made all of our hardcore fans a bit disappointed is its plot and its characters and what Rowling did. We weren't given the entire bundle of war tragedies and broken homes, but the pacing of the entire book was slow and shallow and it really did not give us much character development. Harry is still a bit naive and Ron is still easily riled up and Hermione is still headstrong and Luna is still Luna and Peter Pettigrew still deserves to be thrown in a bowl of boiling cheese.
The Eldar Wand concept and the Deathly Hollows didn't really do much except to make the biggest fool out of Voldemort and give us a backstory to Albus Dumbledore, something we really needed in the last couple of books.
Even though the pacing was old and slow and at some point you really want to throw the damn thing against a wall, it is not without its glory points.
One of the best chapters that really showed off Rowling's ability to write is how she planned and narrated the action sequences. You are jumping up and down in your seat to read whether or not Harry gets through this or Ron gets through that or does Hermione survive this, your heart is in your throat and your have that mad rush to keep up with everything.
Then everything rolls into a stop and the trio are walking in a forest again.
Rowling is not a master at narration, at which point you really need to get down to the insides of a character and tell us why the hell he is doing what he is doing, when you really need that emotional angst from a character, that's when Rowling falls a bit flat, something I've noticed throughout her series.
Snape's chapter being the exception because I fucking loved that chapter. It is both raw and cruel and beautiful all at the same time and there's a war going on outside and Voldemort might be killing a dozen more trees but you don't care about any of it now because fucking Snape.
In the end, Harry Potter is a successful series, a good series that will be in our hearts forever more onwards, but it is not without it's flaws, and hopefully Rowling can continue to imporve on her storytelling to give us another masterpiece.