Harry Potter and the half baked plot

Finished the sixth harry potter book today
or what you might call a book
i thought it was an eight hundred page prequel to book 7

She pulls in all threads from the past 5 books.. sets a hurtling pace.. and then bang.. she .. uhm.. stops...

so there you go.. big things will happen in book 7. this one is just a teaser.

And its got romance, death, revenge, truth, mystique, and a quidditch match

[spoilers follow]

but her heart doesnt seem to have been in it. Romance is cursory - they yell for about eight pages on the pros and cons of snogging and devote two lines to pulsing hearts and thats that. Death is another two words. Perhaps she was too excited by book 7 to devote enough attention to the building up of suspense.. For a major part, the book reads like a log or recording of facts.

She's said elsewhere that this was the first book she wrote.. sure looks like it! the basic plot is there but without too much development. Everything from the dreaded inferii to rosmerta's curse to the felix felicis is dealt with cursorily. With the same tired words reciting these things. The plot has been formulated, but the book has not been written.

She's also tried to squeeze in too much. So unlike the previous books, there are twenty different mini climaxes, fights, matches, deaths, curses, romances put in. but in the end it still sounds more like a grocery list and less like a book.

Potter himself puts it best when he says in the end that he wasn't hurting as much as he did when Sirius died. Neither did we. I remember how heart wrenching it was when Sirius died. I threw aside Book 5 and refused to read it again so that i could go on pretending that Sirius lives.

This is not the same thing..

[spoilers done]

All in all, read if you're a potter addict. If you've just woken up to the phenomenon, then give this a miss (and do tell us which planet you're from btw...)