We have reached the end of the road. We have journeyed through truth, learned about the past, had boulders change our paths forever, embraced the drama of the teenage years, we’ve experienced losses and found ways to grow from them, and seen love as an action spurs our heroes on their paths. Now, we watch it all come together as the forces of good battle to resist the forces of fear and hate. Before even embarking on this review, I have written over 11,000 words […]
Could somebody please give Harry a hug? Like, that boy’s been through a lot…
I am book hungover which pretty much tells you all you need to know. It’s been 2 weeks since I finished and I’ve been unable to get into anything since then. The first books are good, they are satisfying like a puzzle. I did not start becoming really excited until book four. Then it was just me, not doing anything else for 3 days. I went out to lunch with a friend and all I could think about was getting back to find out whether […]
Love is the Engine Which Drives Our Heroes
I’ve been sitting on this review for several days, trying to let the experience of rereading The Half-Blood Prince settle in my mind so I could look at it from a larger angle. The plot of the story is crucial; it shows how the war could so easily fall to the side of Voldemort, and sets up the game plan for defeating him. But it isn’t the only crucial aspect of the narrative, this is also a story of being on the cusp of adulthood, […]
Second time through, the characters make this just as good.
The thing about entirely plot-based books is that they don’t usually make for good re-reads, and I am a TOTAL book re-reader. “Do I want to re-read this someday?” is genuinely a question I ask before I will elevate a book to the four star level. If the answer is no, then there better be some damn fine extenuating circumstances as to why not (for instance a book that’s really good, but so traumatizing and upsetting that you can’t read it more than once). Mysteries sometimes […]