this book with all the excitement
What is your opinion of the book?
I picked up this book with all the excitement I did of the other three. Both my eight-year-old and my ten-year-old had read it in a few days and it  was finally my turn. As an author myself (see A GREATER LOVE on Amazon), I  have been fascinated with trying to understand what makes the HARRY POTTER  books so popular. But this time I was disappointed. I felt the book should  have been condensed by at least a hundred pages because it dragged in  various places. And I was also disappointed at the dark turn the novel was  taking. It was perfectly all right that there was evil, and that someone  dies, but the overall feel was different from the first three books, as  though the evil was perhaps a bit glorified. This worries me so much that I  think I'll read the next book with my children aloud, just in case I need  to censor it or discuss with them the roles of good and evil. I think  Rowling has done a great thing getting so many children to read and her  magical world is truly amazing. I just hope that these books continue in a  positive manner (they are written for children) and that the author leaves  the darkness out. 