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For those of you who do not yet read the book, or are waiting for the indonesian translation, not to worry, this is not a spoiler :p

I always take Joanne Rowling as a much better writer than Dan Brown. However, for this seventh book of Harry Potter, I’ve got a feeling that Rowling is somewhat influenced by Dan Brown’s style. Throughout the book you’re gonna find quests for some precious ancient artefacts, tales of blood-spilling history, codes to decipher, turnarounds, secrets and lies, along with hollywood-like storyline, all reminds you to the controversial Da Vinci code. By the way, there is only one little connection between Harry Potter’s history and Dan Brown’s history, which is the period of witch hunt in Europe somewhere during the middle ages.

At the ending of the previous book “Half-Blood Prince”, You would think that Harry Potter would need to do too much task in one year, with four of five more horcruxes to seek and destroy, while he didn’t know yet where to seek and how how to destroy them. Not the mention that the death of Dumbledore would means there were no more wizards to match Voldemort, with his death eaters ready for mobilizations. No reasons not to attack. I previously doubted that Rowling can finish the story in the seventh book and I was suspicious that there would be an eight book. However, Rowling keep her promise to finish the story at the seventh book.

Perhaps the thing I admire the most from Joanne Rowling his her expertise in making stories with some many characters, including new characters introduced in this 7h book, while keeping each characters useful to the storyline and consistent with the previous books. Not to mention the introduction of new and important characters and the roles they play. You’ll be surprised to find out who among Harry Potter’s loyal friends fought the best alongside him. I’ll bet You never guess.

So, with all the storyline, romances, thriller, twists, surprises, and the Weasley twins’ jokes, the book is worth the price (IDR 292500). But meanwhile, Adina just told me that she purchased in for only $5 (IDR 85000) at London, and afterwards my new colleague Indra successfully found the pdf of the books, so he can read it for free. So go looking for him if you’re can’t wait to read but unwilling to pay the price :D.

Yet, I still say that the book is worth the price and the long wait.

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