Spoilers--my review to MSN

[darsynia]

I was profoundly disappointed. While there were some satisfying and interesting segments to the book, overall the editing was shoddy (typo'd or un-caught canon name mistakes, inconsistent punctuation, etc.), the writing was rough and uneven, and there were a myriad of plot holes or unresolved arcs (some of which were promised in multiple interviews by the author to be explained in the final book).

I am heavily involved in the HP fandom and would consider myself an authority on the facts of the series--and what I found most disappointing was the inconsistency in characterization. Characters whose prior appearances have been lovingly described by Rowling turn up dead with no explation of how or why--while other, less integral characters are given heroic death scenes or at the very least, an impression of emotional impact by their fellow characters. Canon facts which may seem to non-Potterphiles as inconsequential, such as Dumbledore's pre-gray hair color, are altered or simply ignored.

Overall, I got the sense of a rushed author with an incomplete sense of the idea that they were writing the *last* book of a series. Many of we fans had been looking to the final book for explanations of open-ended or seemingly incomplete plot devices (the Veil, for instance)--and to reach the Epilogue (referred to by many of us on Live Journal as 'the Crapilogue') without having those mysteries satisfied was... very unsatisfying.

In the end, I feel as though I've been either let down, or that I had been expecting too much--as though I'd attended a traditional wedding that ended in a pie-eating contest.
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As for me, I came home and had sex instead of reading the book. WIN. (tmi, I know, sorry :P)

OH, and I forgot--on page 125 JKR or her publishers goofed. Hermione JEAN Granger? WTF.

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[oops-pig.livejournal.com]

Amen sista!

Also? Sex instead of reading? You rock! Totally don't even bother. You've already read it. At least it'll look complete on your bookshelf!

[darsynia.livejournal.com]

Yeah I got home and hubby's like 'wanna snuggle?' and I'm like... 'you know, I've read this thing already, why bother with it?' You're exactly right, hehe.

The only thing I did was look at the free poster and put my book next to the other six so they could all beat it up look complete.

ps. Stop thinking the same words as my brain, kthx :)

[oops-pig.livejournal.com]

Ha! Beat it up.

It's not even as long as GoF. It just looks .... wrong sitting on my bookshelf. Like it should be as big as OoTP or something.

I was so irate last night that i couldn't sleep, and I was laying there thinking up reasons why it was so crap. This is what I came up with: JK didn't write the book. She had all her ideas written down and got a ghost writer to write it for her. She's so rich that she could pay someone enough that they're never, ever going to talk, and the only people that would know would be her and the writer. She needn't even tell the publishing company. And she got someone who knew the story enough to write it, but not enough to get it all right.