I agree with this review completely - though I would be harsher :D Having read and loved the first six books, I'll never get why Harry was pointlessly meandering around the forest - it accomplishes nothing, and anything he does manage to do is a) sheer luck (like Bellatrix slipping up and TELLING him where one of the horcruxes is - Voldemort telling him where one is just by thinking to himself - THAT is priceless) b) when Hermione does it for him. Why this book should have been called Hermione Granger and the passive-Boy-who-tried-to-die-and-failed-at-that-too...
There is no consistency and no logic in most of the pivotal points, and in the end, Harry uses Unforgiveables, and instead of defeating Voldemort with the Power-Dark-Lord-Knew-Not he defeats the greatest wizard of all time on a technicality.
There is no character growth. There is, however, character assasination and transplants, where familiar people, for no reason that one can see, suddenly behave differently. And making a book 'adult' does not constitute any great skill on her part - you can almost see her mentally tick off a list: Book 1 - keep childish; Book 2 - introduce racism; Book 3 - murder and betrayal! Book 4 - hormones and slavery; Book 5 - mind control; Book 6 - ultimate evil posing as horcruxes; Book 7 - random deaths of random characters.
I agree with this review completely - though I would be harsher :D Having read and loved the first six books, I'll never get why Harry was pointlessly meandering around the forest - it accomplishes nothing, and anything he does manage to do is a) sheer luck (like Bellatrix slipping up and TELLING him where one of the horcruxes is - Voldemort telling him where one is just by thinking to himself - THAT is priceless) b) when Hermione does it for him. Why this book should have been called Hermione Granger and the passive-Boy-who-tried-to-die-and-failed-at-that-too...
There is no consistency and no logic in most of the pivotal points, and in the end, Harry uses Unforgiveables, and instead of defeating Voldemort with the Power-Dark-Lord-Knew-Not he defeats the greatest wizard of all time on a technicality.
There is no character growth. There is, however, character assasination and transplants, where familiar people, for no reason that one can see, suddenly behave differently. And making a book 'adult' does not constitute any great skill on her part - you can almost see her mentally tick off a list: Book 1 - keep childish; Book 2 - introduce racism; Book 3 - murder and betrayal! Book 4 - hormones and slavery; Book 5 - mind control; Book 6 - ultimate evil posing as horcruxes; Book 7 - random deaths of random characters.