Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Adult Paperback Editions (2018 rejacket) Paperback – 6 Sept. 2018

This is just as absorbing, exciting, and involving as all of the other books. I can't wait to read more.

I pre-ordered this book from Amazon, and did not expect it to arrive it on the day of release (Saturday 21st July). I was expecting to recieve it on the monday or tuesday, but I was surprised when I came home from work at one in the afternoon that saturday when it was released, to find that my copy had arrived.I'm not a Harry Potter fan or anything, though I do love the books. The Harry Potter series is the best books I've ever read; not just the stoies in general, but the way they're written. They don't drag as you read, yet they're not rushed either. A really fun read they are. They're the sort of books I can spend hours and hours reading.From the moment my copy arrived, I was sitting down reading the book and it was just over midnight when I put the book down for the day (I was just slightly more than half way through). I would've actually spent the whole evening reading if I had to, and I'm sure I probably wouldn't have put it down until I finished, and I ain't bullsh***ing about that either. The only thing that made me put it down that evening was the fact I had work the following morning.During work that Sunday, I wanted nothing more than to finish my shift and get back home to the book. As soon as I finally did I was back to reading the book and I finished it (about seven in the afternoon) that same day.The book I found simply amazing, from start to finish. There are twists throughout the story and certain gaps are filled, such as the identity of R.A.B, who stole Voldemort's horcrux and replaced it with a fake, which at the end of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", Harry and Dumbledore took.The book in general isn't just the best, but the most different out of the lot, the reason being that the first six are set in Hogwarts, where this one isn't (not until the very end anyway). This book I had been looking foward to reading ever since I read book 6 (HPAT Half-Blood Prince). Off course I knew that the release of this book was an extra two years ahead.Book 6 ended with Dumbledore's murder (Snape was the culprit) and Harry's decision to never return to Hogwarts for his seventh year, but instead to continue on Dumbledore's mission (which he is certain Dumbledore left him) of finding Voldemort's remaining Horcruxes.As far as Harry and Dumbledore were aware of there were only six horcruxes in total; Tom Riddle's diary and Marvolo's ring had been destroyed. That leaves Helga Hufflepuff's cup, Salazar Slytherin's locket, Nagini (Voldemort's pet snake), and something that belonged to Rowena Ravenclaw.This book like the previous 5 starts of in the summer holidays (book 1 as you remember actually begins in November, that's why I've said previous 5 books, not 6). The Dursley's get moved elsewhere, due to Voldemort and the Death Eaters and Harry is waiting for some wizards to escort him to the Burrow.The day after Harry's 17th birthday, during Fleur and Bill's wedding, Voldemort siezes the Ministry of Magic, Death Eaters attack and Harry, Ron and Hermoine are forced to escape, where they begin their qeust to find and destroy Voldemort's horcruxes.To make things tougher, wizards are after Harry, so he must keep a low profile and avoid been seen. Nevertheless, Hermoine and Ron stand by him and help him out in this mission to destroy those horcruxes. This book is without doubt the best of the lot, though there are sad moments and many deaths throughout the book.I won't tell you wether or not Harry does die or succeeds in killing Voldemort, but I will tell you this; the ending is brilliant, and the final battle against the Death Eaters is similar to the one at the end of book 6. It will be a few short years when this book is made into a film, which I look foward to seeing, although I know it won't be anywhere as good as the book.If you've never read any of the books before and wish to read this, then I suggest that you read the first 6 first. These are the following titles...Harry Potter and the......Philosopher's Stone (6th best)...Chamber of Secrets (5th best)...Prisoner of Azkaban (7th best)...Goblet of Fire (4th best)...Order of the Phoenix (2nd best)...Half-Blood Prince (3rd best)Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is an excellent book and like I've mentioned in the title for this review, the best one out of the lot. I plan to (not yet but soonish) to re-read all seven books again. Excellent books you'd be crazy to not even consider reading them. I urge you to get this book now.

I now have every Harry Potter book on CD with the arrival of this set. I sleep poorly so this is a perfect way to drift off to sleep with a bedtime story being read to me as an adult. Or if I am unable to get to sleep right away I hear more of the adventures of Harry, Ron, and heroine. Word for word with the book.

Despite rapidly approaching 40 I was probably about as eager to finally get my hands on this book as any teenager who has grown up with Harry - to the point where, as my Amazon delivery was late, I actually drove around the neighbourhood to find my postman and intercepted him and was quite prepared to go buy a copy from the High Street if I couldn't find him.The books have been very much hit and miss - "hit" in terms of a sumptuously created fictional world and believable characters - both loveable and not so. "miss" in terms of quantity over quality at times. After the brevity of the first three books JK appears to have sacrificed tight, neat, narratives that deliver a lot in a small space to long, drawn out chapters filled with unnecessary exposition.Deathly Hallows is very representative. Although the much-feared deaths of the really key characters does not occur, certainly only the hardest-hearted Potter sceptics could fail to be touched by some of the characters who do fall in battle. Bearing in mind this is still very much children's fiction I think JK handles these losses sensitively, gradually building into them and preparing her younger readers for the worst.I personally felt very disappointed with the amount of exposition used to reveal so much of the backstory.But let us not forget that this is the last in the series, and the last thing any fan would want is for loose-ends to remain untied, and in this the exposition does succeed. There can be no question that JK certainly layers these expositions by combining many different accounts quite cleverly to paint the final picture, but it slows the pace too much in many cases.The final exposition from beyond the grave will be a stretch too far for the adult audience I fear. Harry has everything neatly explained for him before he goes into his last battle with Voldermort, and from then on there is no doubt in the reader's mind what the final outcome will be.Cynics will claim that the end, when it comes, is nothing more than a rehash of the series' overall rather trite theme "love conquers all ".However we must remember that the primary audience for these novels is still the 10-20 year old audience who can best relate to Harry's school life and growing pains.Rowling crafted some very appealing young characters - Harry and his friends - and we have seen them mature through seven novels to the point where they are self-determining, self-aware teenagers. The novels have progressively darkened and deepened in texture to mirror the natural process where childish naievety gives way to harsh realisations that life is in fact hard, and also that the world is not a black and white place, but filled with shades of grey.In this process I feel Rowling has ultimately succeeded - plot contrivances, lumbering narrative and exposition can all be forgiven because ultimately it is this journey that has grabbed the imagination of a generation, and in the final reckoning it is on this level the seventh novel ultimately does satisfy.High art / literature it is not. Engaging and timely rite-of-passage tale for youngsters and young adults it most assuredly is.The fifth star I reserve for some future project where Rowling matches her continually growing narrative craft to her unparalleled flights of imaginative fancy.Only the cynical need not apply.

I didn't know what to feel when my children came to the end of this book. It is an excellent close to the whole Harry Potter series. I only wish there were a book eight and that Harry Potter would never end.

Good product