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Daydverse
Sluagh
Fandom: Harry Potter
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When Neville agreed to become an Auror after the Battle of Hogwarts, he never expected to be asked to hunt down an old friend...or the nightmare into which that would lead. Sequel to "Dumbledore's Army and the Year of Darkness" set 5 years later.
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When Neville agreed to become an Auror after the Battle of Hogwarts, he never expected to be asked to hunt down an old friend...or the nightmare into which that would lead. Sequel to "Dumbledore's Army and the Year of Darkness" set 5 years later.
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878 pages, ebook
First published November 30, 2008
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August 9, 2018
Well, I kept my commitment and carried on with the series. It's still just as lousy as the first one with all the same problems plus some new ones! Seriously, I could only manage a chapter or two at a time before my eyes began to glaze over, the writing is that unengaging. It still sounds like the narrator is someone on the outside trying to describe the feelings of people on the inside with a bad case of purple prose and a lack of understanding of how feelings work organically. But that's a returning problem, not a new one, so I'm going to focus this review on the new ones.
SPOILER WARNING
A) Half the problems in this fic could be solved if the characters JUST. USED. OBLIVIATE. Or, occasionally, other simple spells. This goes double in the first third or so of the story, which kind of kills any 'rising action' when I just want to shake Neville and yell 'Are you a wizard or not?!'. Which, let me tell you, makes it REALLY hard to sympathize.
B) There's just such a disregard for basic morality and human life. Even if Neville can't decide which side of the Troubles (which are supposed to be OVER even if all the resentment and fighting's not) is right, he absolutely CAN and SHOULD make sure people torturing and murdering on both sides are arrested. Even if he can't make sure to get one on each side each time, it's ridiculous to let that go. And then he says he doesn't care if they kill every Catholic in Ireland - OUR HERO, EVERYONE. And this problem only gets worse as it goes on. Neville repeats frequently how he's only here because of a friend needing help. Not, you know, because an Evil Wizard is about to gain a lot of power and put millions of innocent people in terrible danger. Not a good enough motivation for our hero. Seamus also says later he doesn't care if the villain kills more hostages while they fight because the villain's killed a lot already. OUR CO-PROTAGONIST, EVERYONE. Yeah, if this sequel was intended to have me like Neville or Seamus anymore than I did in DAYD....yeah, no, it failed. It failed so hard.
C) Seamus goes on and on about how nobody believes him about the Diabhul Dubh or however you spell it coming around and a new Dark Wizard, but he never even TRIED. He didn't tell his friends or the Auror division or Kingsley Shacklebolt. Even if English Aurors don't care or the Irish division of the Auror department sucks so bad, Kingsley would absolutely take a new Dark Lord seriously and heads would ROLL if the Aurors refused to listen. And he didn't even fucking TRY to ask his friends, several of whom are Aurors, for help. Again, it makes it REALLY HARD to sympathize with Seamus. Yet when he's arrested and sentenced to prison for the fifteen murders he ABSOLUTELY COMMITTED and ADMITS HE COMMITTED and says out loud HE DOES NOT REGRET DOING SO, we're supposed to be outraged, or at least hope he'd get more help and feel like he doesn't deserve to be punished. Absolutely not. I was ready to throw a party when it seemed like the contempt they seemed to feel about preserving life (or, at least, trying for some sort of judicial process before he committed FIFTEEN MURDERS) was finally met with consequences.
4) The angry meeting with Susan and Neville after Seamus is sentenced made me roll my eyes so hard so often.
A) Kingsley isn't the sole decider on criminal verdicts or what does or doesn't get released to the public. That's the ENTIRE Wizengamot and the staff of the Daily Prophet. And even a head of state can't normally change a sentence like that. They can pardon people, sure, but that's different from changing a sentence in jail to house arrest.
B) SEAMUS ACTUALLY *DID* COMMIT THE CRIME. Just because he's a victim of tremendous abuse that makes him understandable (to a point, assuming you're not hating him every instant here like I did) it most CERTAINLY is not a shield from consequences for FIFTEEN MURDERS HE ADMITTED HE COMMITTED AND DOES NOT REGRET. Also, Kingsley's not an oblivious or completely heartless. If he can pull ANY strings, it's going to make the DA *~hero's~* stay in prison more comfy and getting him an appropriate therapist/protection from angry Death Eaters.
C) The list of grounds Susan reads out is just not as tight as she wants it to be.
Child Abandonment - Nope. The ministry was not the kids guardians. Hogwarts acted in loco parentis, but that's HOGWARTS, not the ministry.
Abuse - again, that was Hogwarts.
Educational neglect - ???? They received their education. Teaching things that are blatantly wrong isn't illegal either or everybody who taught pseudoscience in education would be in jail.
Assault - Hogwarts again.
Child endangerment - That was Hogwarts and THE DA. The DA is the one who dragged children in their resistance and told them to get hyped enough for the battle that they BROKE IN after being expelled by the adults.
Criminal misconduct by Ministry employees - This one is true, ministry officials were in baloney trials, but that's only one and it's got nothing to do with Kingsley. He can settle for that one charge and imprison those responsible (which he probably already has)
Torture - Hogwarts again! (Well, okay the ministry did that too under Voldemort but Susan's suing on behalf of the DA and family)
Manslaughter - ????? Nobody was manslaughtered in the DA. They were murdered or killed in the battle. Even if they were, it's STILL, again, Hogwarts. The ministry is MAYBE culpable for one count of a kid killed by Dementors when they took his family to Azkaban because of his dad (assuming we're not calling that straight up murder), but the Dementors were brought in by SNAPE. So, again, mostly hogwarts.
Murder - Hog. Warts. Any Ministry officials were either A) Death Eaters, B) Supporters acting ON BEHALF of the Death Eaters or C) Imperio'd.
Property Damage - ????? Where?! Also, careful, Susan, the ministry can counter sue you for damaging Hogwarts (if we're pretending that's a government institution, which it appears we are).
Pain and suffering - HOG. WARTS.
Emotional Trauma - Hoggy warty hogwarts
Permanent disfigurement and disability - A) Death Eaters and B) THE DA. AGAIN. THE DA ARE THE ONES WHO TRAINED UNDERAGE SOLDIERS KNOWING FULL WELL THEY WEREN'T ADULTS YET.
If Kingsley wanted to be mean (like me), he would say 'Okay, Mrs. Macmillan. You do that. But be aware the moment you file that suit, the Ministry will counter sue every single surviving adult of the DA for training children to be soldiers knowing full well they were children on behalf of them and their families, especially those of the deceased. Now, are you quite finished throwing a temper tantrum in my office because your friend is experiencing consequences for crimes he actually committed or will I see you in court?'
5) The author pulled a reversal of basically the last two thirds of the story so that it never happened (probably because it was so far out of canon compliancy it may as well be original fiction). Yep. That old chestnut. Time travel only works if A) the whole plot is going back to hit the reset button on some horrible disaster or B) it's built up and mentioned as a possibility ahead of time. So this came straight out of nowhere and basically made everything that came before almost entirely pointless.
6) The scene where Hermione is ritually raped so she can give birth to a clone of her rapist in a quick growing pregnancy (which would kill her in real life because the uterus does not stretch that quickly)? I saw it in Avengers comics before. And Star Trek. All three were bilge and incredibly unpleasant to read about. Not just for the subject matter but with how poorly it's handled. I don't CARE if Ron and Hermione 'might never be the same again' I care that the story treats Hermione as a prop for all the guys to stare at and worry over and that her big show of agency is her immolating herself because 'she's not the bad guy's to use'.
7) The sniping and macho posturing between Harry and Neville through the story has made me roll my eyes so hard I may have strained something. I'll cut to the chase - Harry and Neville are friends, neither are these macho bullheaded pests, this is an entirely out of character mess.
8) 'Whatever babies eat should come from their mother, one way or another' - Either A) That's some weird comment on exclusive breast feeding (out of place, even in context, and also - way to value judge parents who use formula by choice or necessity) or B) For some reason, it's exclusively the mother's job to give bottles. Are the men all completely incapable of doing so?
9) The Oirishness from the first instalment struck with an almighty vengeance. It hurt to read sometimes. The accent is incredibly over the top (especially since canon Seamus' accent is limited to calling his mother 'Mam' instead of 'Mum' and sometimes saying 'me' instead of 'my'). It's not even a particularly good phonetic accent - he sounds like he's southern half the time.
10) The Irish mythology is just...not very good. A lot of easy mistakes were made (Beltaine in that context is about fertility of cattle and protection of crops, cattle, and people from fairies. It's not an all inclusive fertility festival, so far as I can tell. Also, most of the gods he lists as dangerous and 'dark' aren't. They're not evil gods. A sluagh isn't an 'avenging spirit' either, it's a spirit of the restless dead (and sometimes evil people) who's been barred from all forms of afterlife, the otherworld and rejected by the earth and the gods. They're destructive and try to break into houses to steal the souls of the dying, including sometimes the innocent. It's very apt Seamus is calling himself 'Jerk who nobody wants around and who terrorizes people regardless of if they've done anything wrong' but I don't think that's the meaning we were intended to take here. The Oweynagat is specifically for destructive creatures and is not a generic 'Otherworld' and the gods don't live there with them.
11) In one scene Neville confronts Seamus while polyjuiced into Seamus' deceased best friend Dean Thomas. Apparently Thomas had a thing for Seamus and when he confessed, Seamus called him slurs and told him he wanted nothing to do with him anymore. Right before a battle. Not surprisingly, Dean died. And apparently, Seamus thinks if Dean came back to life (what he thinks happened when Neville shows up at the door - which makes me raise an eyebrow because surely the most simple solution for Seamus, a wizard, would be polyjuice potion? the DA used it in DAYD so he definitely knows about it) Dean would just be up for sex with the guy who called him homophobic slurs right before a life or death situation (for the record - if he was remotely in character, not only would Dean NOT be up for sex, Seamus would also be told in no uncertain terms to find a new best friend). So there's that lovely bit where it seems like of course Dean'd be up for sex, who cares about feelings, it's just sex to Dean (because why would a gay man care his best friend rejected him in an awful way when Dean came out?).
And on that note - the not quite sex scene. A) Seamus intends to continue even after Neville-disguised-as-Dean objects, Seamus saying 'No, no, it's okay, I'm up for it, really' - Uh, hello, Seamus? The problem is your would be PARTNER is not up for it. Knock it off. Or at least hear him out, geez. And B) If things HAD progressed (say Neville-as-Dean acquiesced or something), it would have been rape. Neville is not who Seamus thinks he's having sex with. This is never brought up and the only reason Seamus gives for being angry with Neville is because he used Dean's memory to try to manipulate him (into confessing or getting Seamus to be frozen with shock so he could be arrested). This, plus Hermione, makes it the second book in the trilogy where rape or near rape is brushed under the table and never again addressed after it happens.
12) Canon goof ups. Again. This time it turns out that the Elder Wand was REALLY just a master level wand and Harry won by confidence. He also apologizes for not being as good as Neville and for brooding and freezing while the wizarding world was at war. Uh, Sluagh? HE WAS LOOKING FOR THE HORCRUXES. TO END THE WAR. That is not 'sitting around'. Also, Charlie tells Bill when he's trying to snap him out of werewolf rage that he has a wife, a little girl and a baby boy. He calls the baby boy Dominique. Dominique Weasley is Bill's youngest DAUGHTER. His son's name is Louis.
13) The pacing somehow got even worse. The first half moves way too quickly as you wonder what could POSSIBLY be left (in the bored way, not the excited way) and then it slows to a crawl the second half. Also, it seems to flip genres halfway through. It started as a sort of cop procedural with lots of talk about Irish politics and military battles and then halfway through it shifts to a mythological fantasy deal. All wrapped in a thin veneer of regular fantasy (as Harry Potter is). Make up your mind!
I didn't like DAYD. I didn't like Sluagh. I'm not looking forward to slogging through A Peccatis. I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone, unless you really like badly written fan fiction and have something strong on hand.
SPOILER WARNING
A) Half the problems in this fic could be solved if the characters JUST. USED. OBLIVIATE. Or, occasionally, other simple spells. This goes double in the first third or so of the story, which kind of kills any 'rising action' when I just want to shake Neville and yell 'Are you a wizard or not?!'. Which, let me tell you, makes it REALLY hard to sympathize.
B) There's just such a disregard for basic morality and human life. Even if Neville can't decide which side of the Troubles (which are supposed to be OVER even if all the resentment and fighting's not) is right, he absolutely CAN and SHOULD make sure people torturing and murdering on both sides are arrested. Even if he can't make sure to get one on each side each time, it's ridiculous to let that go. And then he says he doesn't care if they kill every Catholic in Ireland - OUR HERO, EVERYONE. And this problem only gets worse as it goes on. Neville repeats frequently how he's only here because of a friend needing help. Not, you know, because an Evil Wizard is about to gain a lot of power and put millions of innocent people in terrible danger. Not a good enough motivation for our hero. Seamus also says later he doesn't care if the villain kills more hostages while they fight because the villain's killed a lot already. OUR CO-PROTAGONIST, EVERYONE. Yeah, if this sequel was intended to have me like Neville or Seamus anymore than I did in DAYD....yeah, no, it failed. It failed so hard.
C) Seamus goes on and on about how nobody believes him about the Diabhul Dubh or however you spell it coming around and a new Dark Wizard, but he never even TRIED. He didn't tell his friends or the Auror division or Kingsley Shacklebolt. Even if English Aurors don't care or the Irish division of the Auror department sucks so bad, Kingsley would absolutely take a new Dark Lord seriously and heads would ROLL if the Aurors refused to listen. And he didn't even fucking TRY to ask his friends, several of whom are Aurors, for help. Again, it makes it REALLY HARD to sympathize with Seamus. Yet when he's arrested and sentenced to prison for the fifteen murders he ABSOLUTELY COMMITTED and ADMITS HE COMMITTED and says out loud HE DOES NOT REGRET DOING SO, we're supposed to be outraged, or at least hope he'd get more help and feel like he doesn't deserve to be punished. Absolutely not. I was ready to throw a party when it seemed like the contempt they seemed to feel about preserving life (or, at least, trying for some sort of judicial process before he committed FIFTEEN MURDERS) was finally met with consequences.
4) The angry meeting with Susan and Neville after Seamus is sentenced made me roll my eyes so hard so often.
A) Kingsley isn't the sole decider on criminal verdicts or what does or doesn't get released to the public. That's the ENTIRE Wizengamot and the staff of the Daily Prophet. And even a head of state can't normally change a sentence like that. They can pardon people, sure, but that's different from changing a sentence in jail to house arrest.
B) SEAMUS ACTUALLY *DID* COMMIT THE CRIME. Just because he's a victim of tremendous abuse that makes him understandable (to a point, assuming you're not hating him every instant here like I did) it most CERTAINLY is not a shield from consequences for FIFTEEN MURDERS HE ADMITTED HE COMMITTED AND DOES NOT REGRET. Also, Kingsley's not an oblivious or completely heartless. If he can pull ANY strings, it's going to make the DA *~hero's~* stay in prison more comfy and getting him an appropriate therapist/protection from angry Death Eaters.
C) The list of grounds Susan reads out is just not as tight as she wants it to be.
Child Abandonment - Nope. The ministry was not the kids guardians. Hogwarts acted in loco parentis, but that's HOGWARTS, not the ministry.
Abuse - again, that was Hogwarts.
Educational neglect - ???? They received their education. Teaching things that are blatantly wrong isn't illegal either or everybody who taught pseudoscience in education would be in jail.
Assault - Hogwarts again.
Child endangerment - That was Hogwarts and THE DA. The DA is the one who dragged children in their resistance and told them to get hyped enough for the battle that they BROKE IN after being expelled by the adults.
Criminal misconduct by Ministry employees - This one is true, ministry officials were in baloney trials, but that's only one and it's got nothing to do with Kingsley. He can settle for that one charge and imprison those responsible (which he probably already has)
Torture - Hogwarts again! (Well, okay the ministry did that too under Voldemort but Susan's suing on behalf of the DA and family)
Manslaughter - ????? Nobody was manslaughtered in the DA. They were murdered or killed in the battle. Even if they were, it's STILL, again, Hogwarts. The ministry is MAYBE culpable for one count of a kid killed by Dementors when they took his family to Azkaban because of his dad (assuming we're not calling that straight up murder), but the Dementors were brought in by SNAPE. So, again, mostly hogwarts.
Murder - Hog. Warts. Any Ministry officials were either A) Death Eaters, B) Supporters acting ON BEHALF of the Death Eaters or C) Imperio'd.
Property Damage - ????? Where?! Also, careful, Susan, the ministry can counter sue you for damaging Hogwarts (if we're pretending that's a government institution, which it appears we are).
Pain and suffering - HOG. WARTS.
Emotional Trauma - Hoggy warty hogwarts
Permanent disfigurement and disability - A) Death Eaters and B) THE DA. AGAIN. THE DA ARE THE ONES WHO TRAINED UNDERAGE SOLDIERS KNOWING FULL WELL THEY WEREN'T ADULTS YET.
If Kingsley wanted to be mean (like me), he would say 'Okay, Mrs. Macmillan. You do that. But be aware the moment you file that suit, the Ministry will counter sue every single surviving adult of the DA for training children to be soldiers knowing full well they were children on behalf of them and their families, especially those of the deceased. Now, are you quite finished throwing a temper tantrum in my office because your friend is experiencing consequences for crimes he actually committed or will I see you in court?'
5) The author pulled a reversal of basically the last two thirds of the story so that it never happened (probably because it was so far out of canon compliancy it may as well be original fiction). Yep. That old chestnut. Time travel only works if A) the whole plot is going back to hit the reset button on some horrible disaster or B) it's built up and mentioned as a possibility ahead of time. So this came straight out of nowhere and basically made everything that came before almost entirely pointless.
6) The scene where Hermione is ritually raped so she can give birth to a clone of her rapist in a quick growing pregnancy (which would kill her in real life because the uterus does not stretch that quickly)? I saw it in Avengers comics before. And Star Trek. All three were bilge and incredibly unpleasant to read about. Not just for the subject matter but with how poorly it's handled. I don't CARE if Ron and Hermione 'might never be the same again' I care that the story treats Hermione as a prop for all the guys to stare at and worry over and that her big show of agency is her immolating herself because 'she's not the bad guy's to use'.
7) The sniping and macho posturing between Harry and Neville through the story has made me roll my eyes so hard I may have strained something. I'll cut to the chase - Harry and Neville are friends, neither are these macho bullheaded pests, this is an entirely out of character mess.
8) 'Whatever babies eat should come from their mother, one way or another' - Either A) That's some weird comment on exclusive breast feeding (out of place, even in context, and also - way to value judge parents who use formula by choice or necessity) or B) For some reason, it's exclusively the mother's job to give bottles. Are the men all completely incapable of doing so?
9) The Oirishness from the first instalment struck with an almighty vengeance. It hurt to read sometimes. The accent is incredibly over the top (especially since canon Seamus' accent is limited to calling his mother 'Mam' instead of 'Mum' and sometimes saying 'me' instead of 'my'). It's not even a particularly good phonetic accent - he sounds like he's southern half the time.
10) The Irish mythology is just...not very good. A lot of easy mistakes were made (Beltaine in that context is about fertility of cattle and protection of crops, cattle, and people from fairies. It's not an all inclusive fertility festival, so far as I can tell. Also, most of the gods he lists as dangerous and 'dark' aren't. They're not evil gods. A sluagh isn't an 'avenging spirit' either, it's a spirit of the restless dead (and sometimes evil people) who's been barred from all forms of afterlife, the otherworld and rejected by the earth and the gods. They're destructive and try to break into houses to steal the souls of the dying, including sometimes the innocent. It's very apt Seamus is calling himself 'Jerk who nobody wants around and who terrorizes people regardless of if they've done anything wrong' but I don't think that's the meaning we were intended to take here. The Oweynagat is specifically for destructive creatures and is not a generic 'Otherworld' and the gods don't live there with them.
11) In one scene Neville confronts Seamus while polyjuiced into Seamus' deceased best friend Dean Thomas. Apparently Thomas had a thing for Seamus and when he confessed, Seamus called him slurs and told him he wanted nothing to do with him anymore. Right before a battle. Not surprisingly, Dean died. And apparently, Seamus thinks if Dean came back to life (what he thinks happened when Neville shows up at the door - which makes me raise an eyebrow because surely the most simple solution for Seamus, a wizard, would be polyjuice potion? the DA used it in DAYD so he definitely knows about it) Dean would just be up for sex with the guy who called him homophobic slurs right before a life or death situation (for the record - if he was remotely in character, not only would Dean NOT be up for sex, Seamus would also be told in no uncertain terms to find a new best friend). So there's that lovely bit where it seems like of course Dean'd be up for sex, who cares about feelings, it's just sex to Dean (because why would a gay man care his best friend rejected him in an awful way when Dean came out?).
And on that note - the not quite sex scene. A) Seamus intends to continue even after Neville-disguised-as-Dean objects, Seamus saying 'No, no, it's okay, I'm up for it, really' - Uh, hello, Seamus? The problem is your would be PARTNER is not up for it. Knock it off. Or at least hear him out, geez. And B) If things HAD progressed (say Neville-as-Dean acquiesced or something), it would have been rape. Neville is not who Seamus thinks he's having sex with. This is never brought up and the only reason Seamus gives for being angry with Neville is because he used Dean's memory to try to manipulate him (into confessing or getting Seamus to be frozen with shock so he could be arrested). This, plus Hermione, makes it the second book in the trilogy where rape or near rape is brushed under the table and never again addressed after it happens.
12) Canon goof ups. Again. This time it turns out that the Elder Wand was REALLY just a master level wand and Harry won by confidence. He also apologizes for not being as good as Neville and for brooding and freezing while the wizarding world was at war. Uh, Sluagh? HE WAS LOOKING FOR THE HORCRUXES. TO END THE WAR. That is not 'sitting around'. Also, Charlie tells Bill when he's trying to snap him out of werewolf rage that he has a wife, a little girl and a baby boy. He calls the baby boy Dominique. Dominique Weasley is Bill's youngest DAUGHTER. His son's name is Louis.
13) The pacing somehow got even worse. The first half moves way too quickly as you wonder what could POSSIBLY be left (in the bored way, not the excited way) and then it slows to a crawl the second half. Also, it seems to flip genres halfway through. It started as a sort of cop procedural with lots of talk about Irish politics and military battles and then halfway through it shifts to a mythological fantasy deal. All wrapped in a thin veneer of regular fantasy (as Harry Potter is). Make up your mind!
I didn't like DAYD. I didn't like Sluagh. I'm not looking forward to slogging through A Peccatis. I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone, unless you really like badly written fan fiction and have something strong on hand.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
January 6, 2013
This story is so much more than a continuation of Blake's previous work, Dumbledore's Army and the Year of Darkness. In Blake's own words, it is not your typical piece of fanfiction by any stretch of the imagination. The reader is exposed to harsh reality as well as myth and fantasy. It is not, and never pretends to be an easy read, though while parts of it are downright horrifying, in the end the experience is gratifying. Is there true evil in the world? Yes. Is there reason to believe all hope is lost? Most likely. Is there any hope of redemption when you've strayed so far from who you were and become something else entirely? That is the question this book takes on.
May 16, 2017
Stunningly brilliant. Dark, brutal and unforgiving. Harsh, emotional and an utter rollercoaster of a twisting ride.
This is magic for adults. The dark, raw underbelly of the wizarding world. The inescapable betrayal of the young and the wounds of a war that stretch far into the future.
If you want a what happened next and you don't believe in happy epilogue endings then this is the tale for you.
This is magic for adults. The dark, raw underbelly of the wizarding world. The inescapable betrayal of the young and the wounds of a war that stretch far into the future.
If you want a what happened next and you don't believe in happy epilogue endings then this is the tale for you.
February 5, 2017
This is not for the faint heart.
This is not even for a strong heart! Man, I nearly wept. How that gang took advantage of Neville, how Ron was crying for Hermione even when they had cut him half. Hermione was....oh my god! I can't believe it. I couldn't complete it. The writing style is one hell of a thing but it's not for the faint heart.
This is not even for a strong heart! Man, I nearly wept. How that gang took advantage of Neville, how Ron was crying for Hermione even when they had cut him half. Hermione was....oh my god! I can't believe it. I couldn't complete it. The writing style is one hell of a thing but it's not for the faint heart.
dnf
April 30, 2013LOVED the first book in the series, but can't seem to get through this one. After half a year of trying, I'm giving up. It's not bad, just LONG.
February 5, 2016
A remarkable and imaginitive journey into Ireland and its magic with a Muggle Troubles detour.
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November 15, 2017DNF at about 75%
(I'm not rating it because I should have read the reviews here before I started, and I probably wouldn't have even read it. I also don't believe in rating books that I haven't finished.)
This was so disappointing. I loved DAYD, and I really had high hopes for this. But this really should have been written as an original story because it literally had nothing to do with JK's world except the same character names and some of the canon pairings. But that was it.
This is also massively dark, and has [TW] rape and cannibalism, which is actually some of the lighter stuff that goes on here. And I'm a sensitive cupcake. It was just too much.
After the horrible ceremony type thing, Neville goes on a quest straight out of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. I've read that already. I don't want to read it again.
I don't know what happens next because I don't care and I won't read the third book in the series.
If you want something that is believable in JK's world, this is not it.
(I'm not rating it because I should have read the reviews here before I started, and I probably wouldn't have even read it. I also don't believe in rating books that I haven't finished.)
This was so disappointing. I loved DAYD, and I really had high hopes for this. But this really should have been written as an original story because it literally had nothing to do with JK's world except the same character names and some of the canon pairings. But that was it.
This is also massively dark, and has [TW] rape and cannibalism, which is actually some of the lighter stuff that goes on here. And I'm a sensitive cupcake. It was just too much.
After the horrible ceremony type thing, Neville goes on a quest straight out of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. I've read that already. I don't want to read it again.
I don't know what happens next because I don't care and I won't read the third book in the series.
If you want something that is believable in JK's world, this is not it.
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