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Bloody decorating and a cold interfered with my plans to spend all day reading, but thanks to waking up at 7am yesterday, 24 hour opening at Tescos and some sod hammering on a door outside early this morning, I've gotten through the book quite quickly anyways.
Non-spoiler review:
I enjoyed most of the book, most of it I found extremely hard to put down and thought it both developed and concluded the story, characters and universe really well. Rowling made some moderately tough choices admirably and had me laughing and sniffling a few times each. On the other hand... there was a stunningly poor choice of sub-plot which was just pointless filler and a whole section in the middle of the book where I just kept shouting "get on with it!" at her. A satisfactory ending, but Rowling hasn't really learnt from mistakes she made with earlier books.
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Non-spoiler review:
I enjoyed most of the book, most of it I found extremely hard to put down and thought it both developed and concluded the story, characters and universe really well. Rowling made some moderately tough choices admirably and had me laughing and sniffling a few times each. On the other hand... there was a stunningly poor choice of sub-plot which was just pointless filler and a whole section in the middle of the book where I just kept shouting "get on with it!" at her. A satisfactory ending, but Rowling hasn't really learnt from mistakes she made with earlier books.
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