Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

At last I am done. This was quite a ride reading the whole series in two months. I think I had a much better experience overall reading them all together. There were some tears this time, and not where I expected. But just like my first attempt, getting through "Deathly Hallows" was tough because I was both excited that it was finally reaching the conclusion, but also sad that it was the conclusion. There are a lot of naysayers about the series, citing Rowling's heavy use of adverbs, that it was derivative of the boarding school genre, and that it had no literary value or moral complexity. Sure there were lots of adverbs, sure I thought of "A Separate Peace", sure it was no "Grendel". But who cares? I think it was fun, scary, and terrific storytelling.

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And there are some spoilers there...