Harry Potter

and the Deathly Hallows

(which I’m reading for completeness)

is deathly writing.

I confess I haven’t not enjoyed any of the books more than I’m not enjoying this one – shoddy writing; poor plot (not unusual); lack of pace (partly due to poor writing); with the biggest failing being that the children just aren’t interesting enough to be main characters.  The story needs the adults to make it work, and consequently, the book is one-paced, slow and sludgy.  The idea of the book as TWO films is, frankly, appalling.

I’ll finish the book, if only to enable me to argue from a position of strength that the Harry Potter books needed to be reigned in from the second volume on.  The knowledge that these  books with have been celebrated as Great Literature by the Great British Reading Public is truly embarrassing.