As promised on the other page I faithfully went and purchased my very own copy of the latest addition to the Harry Potter story line on Saturday morning. I'm not commited enough to get up in the middle of the night and haul my ass into the shops to buy it at midnight! I then spent every spare moment over the weekend reading the damn thing (I had other work to do so I didn't get to finish it until about midnight last night).
Ok so lets establish that I like the books and was indeed looking forward to sinking my teeth into this, the sixth in the series.
However, I have to report that I was really disappointed with this one. I found I trawled through the pages waiting for something to happen and I all I got was a feeling of being slightly nauseated by the predominance of "love stories". I'm all for the kids getting their kicks, but the planted images of Ron placing tonsil hockey with his chosen bird was, to be honest, gross. I can't imagine it will be a hit with the kids either! I preferred the darker angrier Harry, at least he was interesting.
The ending adds a significant punch to the storyline, however compared to the breath stopping fights at the end of both the previous books it falls short on this score as well in my opinion. I don't want to give away what happens cause I think mean spirited people do that (you know who you are!) so I won't say anymore about it. Though I will say I'm still pinching myself about the revelations and do wonder is just another layer of deception, but then I'm a sap and love a good conspiracy theory!
Although I found the Half Blood Prince overall was a bit of a wet lettuce I think the last book has been set up to be the best of all of them, this one was the filler book that just moved the story on a little bit while leaving ample opportunity for a full blooded finale. But I'll have to wait and see how that little theory pans out as well!
