I don't wish to give any spoilers to anyone. That said, I'm going to post everything I want to say in comments below --- this is a bit of a pain, since blogger won't allow me to subsequently edit things -- so I can't appear to be smarter than I actually am!
And more to the point, I can't add subsequent thoughts to the top comment: I have to create a new comment below....
Yours, hiding no spoilers,
N.
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I think, having just finished the book HP and the DH, that this is my favourite of the past three or four books. Other than the appearance of Deus Ex Machina in chapter 9 3/4, it hung together very well --- far better crafted than one might expect
from a novel completing and giving closure to a 7 novel sequence.
Am I happy with the novel and with the ending?
I am happy with the novel, although I was most upset at the deaths of XXX and XXX, and most especially the way that XXX was treated.
The ending? I could not have written an ending half as good, though I almost wish that she had left an ending inviting a new series. She didn't. At least, not one with the potential for power that this series had.
N.
I am on Page 530, I think, and I am only reading 25-30 pages a day because I want it to last longer! So far, I think it is an excellent book, but then I have not learned who dies.
Michele sent me.
No major spoilers here but if you haven't finished reading, you might want to skip because there are minor ones.
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I would have to disagree about the ending. Skipping to 19 years later does leave a large gap of untold stories, there probably won't be the major 7 book adventure. And then you have the next generation.
I was just talking to another friend of mine and said that I wish that the 19 years was broken in sets of a few more chapters. Maybe one at three years, to see how everyone was coping and to recap on which death eaters were around and which were gone. Then maybe a wedding or two, a little more on the children. Especially Ted. Did he live with his grandmother or with Harry and Ginny? What did Harry tell him about his parents? Were Remus' fears true and he inherited the werewolf trait? Is that generational according to JK?
If she doesn't write any more series, some shorts would be fine with me. But I'd like them to be from here and not some take from someone else. Although there are many great authors out there, it just wouldn't have the same feeling. I've seen that in other "companion books", take off from the characters by other authors.
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Off topic- I picked up Baking with Julia yesterday. Pixie and I are going to bagels today and I made a single loaf of my white bread to have a bit of starter dough for that two starter recipe.
Oh and I started a sourdough mother last night. I'll let you know how it turns out.
~a~ -- I agree with you to an extent about the final chapter: but as far as closure goes, I think it works. Yes, I want to know more, but in some ways the more I want to know is mundane. I do hope she chooses to write more, but I don't expect that she will!
Good luck with the mixed starter bread! And with the sourdough!
N.
I did not look at your subsequent comments because I am in HP hiding.
but in answer to your ?? on my blog, it was a quilting class. I am a fabriholic!
and there was no song from the shower, DH was really eerily quiet!
thanks for stopping by!!
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