I Read

[ithildin]

I was right, Nin really, really wanted me to finish so she could talk about it, so I read a bit, did chores, read some more, made dinner, read some more, did laundry. You get the idea [g]

So what did I think?


What I really wanted out of this book, I got: Snape was vindicated. Fewer people died than I thought were going to, though I always said one of the twins was going to be killed before the end, and I was right [sniff] Overall, I thought it was a good ending, and I'm very glad she did an epilogue -- Albus Severus! [another sniff]

And that about covers it. I'll leave the blow by blow reaction posts to other people!



Later: Oh, yeah, feel free to leave spoilery comments. And beware that there may be spoilers in the comments, so on and so forth [g]

Comments

[ardienne.livejournal.com]

In less than 36 hours my daughter and I both read this book. I could have done without the camping descriptions. Jane Austen managed to sum up a person's entire personality in one sentence. I would have been happier with a one sentence description of the various camping venues. I wanted so much more from Snape and Harry. There should have been some face-to-face with these two pivotal characters. I was disappointed that Tonks and Lupin didn't get more page-time. This was an interesting paring and seeing the irreverent Tonks and "good boy" Lupin trying for domestic harmony would have been amusing. Even their angst would have been a welcome break from Potter's internal dialogue. A Snape internal dialogue would have been welcome too. All the Pensieve revelations about how he felt about Lily are all fine and good but, some of them, the dearest, the most bittersweet should have come from Snape.