Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Bloomsbury Publishing)

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.

Excellent. Plenty of detail. Nothing left out. Eyes not very good, so I can increase font size. Well recommended

I can’t wait to read I love the movies & books to

DOES CONTAIN SOME SPOILERS! And so the greatest literary saga ever written comes to a close. J K Rowling, probably the most read children's author ever, had a lot of fans to please and a massive weight on her shoulders to deliver something epic and awesome in equal measures. With Deathly Hallows she has definitely done that, this book could not be any bettter, it is moving, action packed, epic, entertaining, very well written and unbelievably fast paced. The descriptions are vivid and engrossing as are the characters. The events throughout are original and so well described you feel you are actually riding the cart through Gringotts or fighting beside the students of hogwarts as they battle to defend their lives and their school. Never has a series of books been so involving and engrossing - it is impossible not to be swept up in the wizarding world and become lost for a few chapter every night in this halls of Hogwarts or the forest of dean or the winding streets of Diagon alley. While i was reading this book the pages seemed to fly by as if they were enchanted to do so, i lapped up this final installment in the series with great enthusiasm and it never failed to have me reaching for it every night and yearning for it when i was in school. There was not a moment, whilst reading this, that i was not entertained or engrossed - i literally had to force myself to put it down at two in the morning when i should have been sleeping. As usual the story seems to be well thought out and very pleasing. Rowling uses her boundless imagination to deliver a roller coaster ride through thoroughly brilliant chapters. Each of the chapters gets subsequently better and seem vastly shorter than they are in truth. The final battle of hogwarts is gripping and brilliantly paced, the action (never overdone) blends seamlessly with the emotion and I truly could not put this book down. The revelation that Snape sent the silver doe, that he had vowed to Dumbeldore to protect Harry and that he was not in fact in league with Voldemort were a stroke of genius and a very wise plot twist to include. The Harry Potter novels and films have been a massive part of mine and millions of other peoples lives and Rowling could not have ended this phenomonal series any better. It has been unbelievable growing up in Hogwarts and the wizarding world and though it is over a part of me will never leave the Gryffindor common room and the big old castle that was our chance to be a part of something unique and completely extraordinary. Well done J K Rowling and thanks for making my childhood so much more.

Arrived on time book is fantastic thank you

This book is by far the most emotional read of all the Harry books ❤️ Absolutely love the book, love the wrap up and all in all love how well this was written. So much emotion, so much fear and suspense and then an amazing ending.

Voilà, c'est fini, a pus ! J'ai pris mon temps pour le lire, une semaine, j'ai fait des tas d'autres choses pour m'occuper et ne pas engloutir le livre trop vite, mais voilà, on arrive quand même au bout. Ce dernier volume ne manque ni de rythme ni de suspens. L'ambiance est tendue tout au long du récit, même si l'humour et la légèreté sont toujours présent, les diverses tragédies qui ponctuent l'histoire prennent le dessus et assombrissent l'atmosphère générale. Le destin de Harry, Ron et Hermione est des plus difficiles, on les suit dans leur quête avec appréhension, on se demande quelle option a bien pu osé prendre Rowling pour conclure sa série. Harry gagne en maturité mais reste imparfait, avec ses doutes et ses peurs, son entêtement et ses blessures. Hermione et Ron complètent habilement le trio et les relations entre les 3 amis se complexifient. Beaucoup d'action aussi (on peut espérer une adaptation ciné assez spectaculaire et échevelée). Ce dernier chapitre nous révèlent bon nombre de choses jusque là inexpliquées. Dumbledore nous apparaît sous un nouveau jour, on apprend à mieux le connaître. L'intrigue est assez touffue, l'ensemble est vraiment bien ficelé. La conclusion logique, pourra décevoir certains, et d'autres, pour des raisons différentes. Je pense qu'elle tient parfaitement la route, sans être simpliste elle reste cohérente. Je pourrais dire comme pas mal de monde que je savais pour Snape, mais entre savoir et avoir envie de croire, il y a une nuance non négligeable. Toujours est-il que son rôle est éclairci, et que c'est sans doute le personnage le plus intéressant de la série. Sous de faits airs manichéens, en regardant de plus près on s'aperçoit que tout est plus nuancé que ce que l'on croit. En un mot, magnifique. Je suis curieuse de voir ce que va faire Rowling après ça...

The final confrontation between Harry Potter, the Boy Who Lived, the Chosen One, the "symbol of hope" for both the Wizard and Muggle worlds, and Lord Voldemort, He Who Must Not Be Named, the nefarious leader of the Death Eaters and would-be ruler of all. Good versus Evil. Love versus Hate. The Seeker versus the Dark Lord. 10 years in the making, from the Greek myths to Dickens and Tolkien to "Star Wars." And true to its roots, it ends with good old-fashioned closure: heart-racing, bone-chilling confrontation and an epilogue that clearly lays out people's fates. Getting to the finish line is not seamless -- the last part of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," the seventh and final book in the series, has some lumpy passages of exposition and a couple of clunky detours -- but the overall conclusion and its determination of the main characters' story lines possess a convincing. With each installment, the "Potter" series has grown increasingly dark, and this volume is no exception. While Ms. Rowling's astonishingly limber voice still moves effortlessly between Ron's adolescent sarcasm and Harry's growing solemnity, from youthful exuberance to more philosophical gravity, "Deathly Hallows" is, for the most part, a somber book that marks Harry's final initiation into the complexities and sadnesses of adulthood. From his first days at Hogwarts, the young, green-eyed boy bore the burden of his destiny as a leader, coping with the expectations and duties of his role, and in this volume he is clearly more high-spirited war games of Quidditch have given way to real war, and Harry often wishes he were not the de facto leader of the Resistance movement, shouldering terrifying responsibilities, but an ordinary teenage boy -- free to romance Ginny Weasley and hang out with his friends. Harry has already lost his parents, his godfather Sirius and his teacher Professor Dumbledore (all mentors he might have once received instruction from) and in this volume, the losses mount with unnerving speed: at least a half-dozen characters we have come to know die in these pages, and many others are wounded or tortured. Voldemort and his followers have infiltrated Hogwarts and the Ministry of Magic, creating havoc and terror in the Wizard and Muggle worlds alike, and the members of various populations -- including elves, goblins and centaurs -- are choosing sides. No wonder then that Harry often seems overwhelmed with disillusionment and doubt in the final installment of this seven-volume. He continues to struggle to control his temper, and as he and Ron and Hermione search for the missing Horcruxes (secret magical objects in which Voldemort has stashed parts of his soul, objects that Harry must destroy if he hopes to kill the evil lord), he literally enters a dark wood, in which he must do battle not only with the Death Eaters, but also with the temptations of hubris and despair. Harry's weird psychic connection with Voldemort (symbolized by the lightning-bolt forehead scar he bears as a result of the Dark Lord's attack on him as a baby) seems to have grown stronger too, giving him clues to Voldemort's actions and whereabouts, even as it lures him ever closer to the dark side. One of the plot's significant turning points concerns Harry's decision on whether to continue looking for the Horcruxes -- the mission assigned to him by the late Dumbledore -- or to pursue the Hallows, three magical objects said to make their possessor the master of Death. Harry's journey will propel him forward to a final showdown with his arch enemy, and also send him backward into the past, to the house in Godric's Hollow where his parents died, to learn about his family history and the equally mysterious history of Dumbledore's family. At the same time, he will be forced to ponder the equation between fraternity and independence, free will and fate, and to come to terms with his own frailties and those of others. Indeed, ambiguities proliferate throughout "The Deathly Hallows": we are made to see that kindly Dumbledore, sinister Severus Snape and perhaps even the awful Muggle cousin Dudley Dursley may be more complicated than they initially seem, that all of them, like Harry, have hidden aspects to their personalities, and that choice -- more than talent or predisposition -- matters most of all. It is Ms. Rowling's achievement in this series that she manages to make Harry both a familiar adolescent -- coping with the frustrations of school and dating. This talent has enabled her to create a narrative that effortlessly mixes up allusions to Homer, Milton, Shakespeare and Kafka, with silly kid jokes about vomit-flavored candies, a narrative that fuses a plethora of genres (from the boarding-school novel to the detective story to the epic quest) into a story that could be Exhibit A in a Joseph Campbell survey of mythic archetypes. In doing so, J. K. Rowling has created a world as fully detailed as L. Frank Baum's Oz or J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle Earth, a world so minutely imagined in terms of its history and rituals and rules that it qualifies as an alternate universe, which may be one reason the "Potter" books have spawned such a passionate following and such fervent exegesis. With this volume, the reader realizes that small incidents and asides in earlier installments (hidden among a huge number of red herrings) create a breadcrumb trail of clues to the plot, that Ms. Rowling has fitted together the jigsaw-puzzle pieces of this long undertaking with Dickensian ingenuity and ardor. Objects and spells from earlier books -- like the invisibility cloak, Polyjuice Potion, Dumbledore's Pensieve and Sirius's flying motorcycle -- play important roles in this volume, and characters encountered before, like the house-elf Dobby and Mr. Ollivander the wandmaker, resurface, too. The world of Harry Potter is a place where the mundane and the marvelous, the ordinary and the surreal coexist. It's a place where cars can fly and owls can deliver the mail, a place where paintings talk and a mirror reflects people's innermost desires. It's also a place utterly recognizable to readers, a place where death and the catastrophes of daily life are inevitable, and people's lives are defined by love and loss and hope -- the same way they are in our own mortal world.

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I loved reading Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone! It was so exciting and full of magic. Harry is a really cool character, and I liked how brave and kind he is. My favorite parts were when he learns how to use magic and flies on a broomstick! The story made me feel like I was at Hogwarts too. It has funny parts, some scary parts, and lots of adventure. I couldn’t stop reading it and now I want to read the next one right away! I think any 10-year-old girl who loves magic and fun stories would really enjoy this book!

"Harry Potter e i Doni della Morte" è un libro che ogni fan della saga deve leggere. È un finale epico e commovente che conclude in modo magistrale una delle storie più amate di tutti i tempi. Leggere "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" nella sua versione originale inglese è stata un'esperienza indimenticabile,permette di cogliere sfumature e giochi di parole che possono perdersi nella traduzione.ed è un ottimo modo per migliorare il proprio inglese e ampliare il vocabolario.