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I missed her playful humour. One of my favourite aspects of the Potter stories was the undercurrent of laughter, even during the difficult, frightening times. So although there are glimpses, occasionally, this is a far more serious book. I'm glad I read it though, and managed to do so before I could see what other people thought, and I'm fascinated to see what she writes next because going from hugely popular children's fiction to, I suspect, widely criticised modern literature is a massive jump, and I wonder where, eventually, she will settle?
You might also enjoy [[Kiss and Kin by Angela Lambert]]. {{amazontext|amazon=140870420X}} {{waterstonestextamazonUStext|waterstonesamazon=9166066B007TK77QE}}
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|name=Kathryn Graham - [https://twitter.com/ktmaxi @ktmaxi] on Twitter
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|comment= Interesting review from a reader who was obviously a Harry Potter fan when younger. Thought it seemed an honest and well thought out response to this book, but definitely detected huge disappointment.
Haven’t read The Casual Vacancy yet so can’t comment. I mean to read it because I think I should – out of curiosity if nothing more – BUT am seriously put off by knowing I’ll be stepping into real grunginess..J.K. Rowling may have felt a social compulsion to write this, exposing all the ghastliness of a lot of today’s society, but will it change anything? Life is hard for most of us and reading a good book which cheers us up is one of the things that gets us by, so why has she produced such a dreary sounding book? Dickens wrote to expose social evils of his time, but he did manage to include comedy and enjoyment in his novels too, somehow!
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