J.K. Rowling

At the End, It All Comes Down to Choice. Final Thoughts on Harry Potter

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling, Jim Dale (narrator)

November 19, 2017 by faintingviolet 6 Comments

*Note: This review was completed in 2017 before the author’s views towards our trans siblings began to be widely known. My reading experience was what it was and these reviews will remain up, but it should be noted that I find her TERF values abhorrent, which have only become more clear over time, and her doubling down in Summer 2020 has made the decision to walk away from her as a creative force the only acceptable choice for me. I will no longer be supporting […]

Could somebody please give Harry a hug? Like, that boy’s been through a lot…

September 7, 2017 by tillie 4 Comments

I am book hungover which pretty much tells you all you need to know. It’s been 2 weeks since I finished and I’ve been unable to get into anything since then. The first books are good, they are satisfying like a puzzle. I did not start becoming really excited until book four. Then it was just me, not doing anything else for 3 days. I went out to lunch with a friend and all I could think about was getting back to find out whether […]

Love is the Engine Which Drives Our Heroes

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowlling, narrated by Jim Dale

August 30, 2017 by faintingviolet 3 Comments

Second time through, the characters make this just as good.

August 22, 2017 by narfna 5 Comments

The thing about entirely plot-based books is that they don’t usually make for good re-reads, and I am a TOTAL book re-reader. “Do I want to re-read this someday?” is genuinely a question I ask before I will elevate a book to the four star level. If the answer is no, then there better be some damn fine extenuating circumstances as to why not (for instance a book that’s really good, but so traumatizing and upsetting that you can’t read it more than once). Mysteries sometimes […]