Special Harry Potter Book Review

Harry Potter's long and sometime tedious journey
comes to an end

J. K. Rowling's "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" closes out the seven volume long series of Harry Potter books. Nobody seriously can argue that these books have not been one of the most phenomenal, if not the most phenomenal, publications in history. An unknown writer pens a series of fantasy novels, with each one having greater world-wide sales than the previous one. Five mega-production movies have already been released based on the first five novels in the series. Sales, readership, and viewership have been worldwide, not just a one nation phenomenon. Kids who would otherwise never consider reading a 700 plus page book can't wait to struggle through these volumes. Surprisingly, it appears that at least as many adults are avid readers of the series as are pre-adolescent children.

There are so many far-fetched and confusing elements introduced in the seven volumes, that it would take computer tracking to really determine if there is perfect consistency from one use to another. However, I can say as one who has read and written published reviews of all seven that this seventh and final volume certainly appears to me to tie up nearly all the lose ends. And for me, they were all tied up in a very satisfactory manner. But I'm a sentimentalist - I love happy endings where "the good guys win" and nearly "everybody lives happily ever after."