Sunday, July 17, 2005
Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince - J K Rowlings
Just finished reading 'Harry Potter and Half Blood Prince and it was a mammoth reading started on Sunday morning and finished a little over 600 pages, in one day flat. I have a headache and an arm ache to prove it. And I, of course, attribute all this to the hype attached. I dont think I have ever been this keen to read a book.
It's a decent continuation of the story line (after the last five books), ends on a much more decisive note and well all I can say is that the Author lied in her promotional activities about the story line! Wont be a spoiler.. but wait a while.. am sure in some time 'The Person Who Dies' or the character name will be in some review or the other. Of course, the character who shares the title with Harry also becomes evident halfway through the book. For a moment there one does think, is the Prince a he or a she.. or just an attempt to mislead Harry?
Harry joins Hogwarts School in his second to last year in a very tense atmosphere with all proverbial hell broken lose. Lots of adventures, lots of adolscent crushes without the angst of the last book (Harry and Cho..) and more clearly defined black and white characters. Lord Voldemort is present in the story through memory and incidents and Death Eaters only.
All in all better than the last book (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix). One line from the various online reviews that I really liked and agree to is that this books makes no allowance for readers who have not read upto this point and this was not the case till the last book.
MarginAlien wrote a nice review in the TOI but I can't find a link online. Will come back and update the post once I can. Here is blog that is keeping track of reviews (or sort of).
Update: Here is MarginAlien's review of the book.
It's a decent continuation of the story line (after the last five books), ends on a much more decisive note and well all I can say is that the Author lied in her promotional activities about the story line! Wont be a spoiler.. but wait a while.. am sure in some time 'The Person Who Dies' or the character name will be in some review or the other. Of course, the character who shares the title with Harry also becomes evident halfway through the book. For a moment there one does think, is the Prince a he or a she.. or just an attempt to mislead Harry?
Harry joins Hogwarts School in his second to last year in a very tense atmosphere with all proverbial hell broken lose. Lots of adventures, lots of adolscent crushes without the angst of the last book (Harry and Cho..) and more clearly defined black and white characters. Lord Voldemort is present in the story through memory and incidents and Death Eaters only.
All in all better than the last book (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix). One line from the various online reviews that I really liked and agree to is that this books makes no allowance for readers who have not read upto this point and this was not the case till the last book.
MarginAlien wrote a nice review in the TOI but I can't find a link online. Will come back and update the post once I can. Here is blog that is keeping track of reviews (or sort of).
Update: Here is MarginAlien's review of the book.
# posted by Janaki @ 11:26 pm 
