J.K. Rowling
I can’t say the book was disappointing. I wasn’t anticipating it highly, but when my parents brought a copy of it home the other day and I didn’t have anything else to read, what do you expect me to do?
Potter just has a magical quality to it, delightfully easy to read. No doubt Potter is still aimed to a younger audience, but I was just at the ripe age for this kind of fiction back when the first book came out, and I’ve been hooked ever since.
But to try and comment without ruining the story for others, book six falls far from the previous five. There seemed to be a shift fromthe usual Hogwarts activities in the book, almost so much that I almost didn’t notice the book culminating as I neared the end.
Action seemed better spread between the pages, seting a dynamite scene for the seventh. Whereas each book so far has been almost identical but for the challenge undergone by Harry at the end, the sixth shifted away from the mundane goings on of Hogwarts followed by great climax. Which marks a turning point in the series, the seventh looks to be quite different from any of the rest, I can’t anticipate it being anything but action.
And if Rowling does indeed still hope to wrap up the series in seven books, the next is going to be even thicker then the fifth. The Potter Voldemort conflict is still nowhere near resolution, and Half Blood raised more plot issues then it resolved. I read almost all of it today, figuring that some issues would get wrapped up before the book ended, but only one really was (I can’t tell you what).
Like I said last paragraph, the next book is going to have to be a hard hitter, and I’m excited to see how all this ends up more then I’ve been after finishing any of the other books.