Superbly entertaining! (Do I sound like a professional critic?)
So, I am not a Harry Potter person. I have seen two (well, now three) of the movies, and listened to one or two of the books on CD (the library has a limited selection of novels on CD, so we listened to this and Lemony Snicket through all of our road travels around the country last year). Dave on the other hand enjoys the story immensely and picked up Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the seventh and final book the day it came out and read it the next day. We were on a sort of vacation, so I needed something to read. It was the only thing around after returning my library books, so I picked it up.
I was completely immersed. It was entertaining, well written, and super easy to follow. The detective in me was able to predict many sections of the book, but I wasn't bored, and by no means was my intelligence insulted (that could be just my intelligence though). I felt some of the subject content was a little mature and a few parts a little graphic for younger readers, who I think I remember to be the original intended audience of the series, but maybe I just don't know younger readers. All in all, I give it two thumbs up for a great vacation read (a little bulky for a beach book, but that didn't stop some people out here).
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