Hello, Bookhaolics! I am sorry for postponing my blog posts so much lately, I just needed more time to edit what I wrote in every article, since I am working on everything at once, because of my chaotic mind and its ideas that come whenever I don’t need them, so I’m forced to write them down. I will try as much as possible to keep a schedule from now on and see if I can manage it any better.
Soooo… Today we are going to talk about “Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince”, the 6th book of the series written by J.K. Rowling. I hope you are going to enjoy it!
Synopsis:
Set during Harry Potter’s sixth year at Hogwarts, the novel explores the past of the boy wizard’s nemesis, Lord Voldemort, and Harry’s preparations for the final battle against Voldemort alongside his headmaster and mentor Albus Dumbledore. What the older wizard is trying to do by showing Harry memories about Voldemort, is to help the boy find out as many things as possible about his opponent, maybe even discover his weaknesses or how to defeat him for good. This novel explores the dark and twisted ways of Black Magic, it tells us a lot about Tom Marvolo Riddle’s life before becoming the feared Lord Voldemort and it gives us a strong insight into some of the Death Eaters’ views on their job as Voldemort’s servants.
1. A Reader’s POV on the book:
As a reader, let me tell you that you won’t be able to let this book down until you finish it, even though it’s got a few good over 600 pages. It is so gripping, suspenseful and full of tension, that it always keep you wondering what is about to come next. That, of course, after giving you mind-fuck after mind-fuck. You’ll get to some point where nothing will be able to surprise you anymore… or so you will think.
But wait until you reach the end and that’s when you will be shaken up! Actually, more than that…
2. A Writer’s POV on the book:
As a writer, the only things that you will get to notice besides what I mentioned in the Reader’s POV, are the amazing skill of building up a crazy tension and keeping the readers in full suspense; and the characters’ development. I can’t really describe how I feel that J.K. does her magic when it comes to creating plot twists and dropping bomb after bomb to give us mind-fucks, it is her personal style and I can’t really place my finger on the “recipe” that she uses for that. All I can say is just that this craft requires some smartness, because if you want to be a successful writer, you need to give your readers this kind of puzzles. One technique that I found out she uses a lot, like her literary principle when it comes to writing, is “Show, don’t tell”. And she has a signature, extremely clever way of applying this.
And about character development, I hope I’m not mistaken, but I think she used charts for her characters. Actually, she would be a real Goddess if she didn’t use charts, since she’s got too many characters and it surely would have been a torture to have to remember all those things about them and not keep an evidence. Personally, I use character charts as well. There are details that only you will get to know about your character, but it helps having that seemingly useless information written down somewhere, just so you don’t get to casually place in Chapter 4 someone you have just killed in Chapter 3. 🙃
That was all for today, I hope you likes it and I’ll see you next time (whenever taht shall be😅) with the last review in my HP series.
LOL (Lots Of Love), ♡Patry♡
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