Series
Genres
Publication
Listening Library (Audio) (2007), Edition: Unabridged, 17 pages
Description
Burdened with the dark, dangerous, and seemingly impossible task of locating and destroying Voldemort's remaining Horcruxes, Harry, feeling alone and uncertain about his future, struggles to find the inner strength he needs to follow the path set out before him.
Awards
Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction (Finalist — 2007)
Audie Award (Finalist — Audiobook of the Year — 2008)
Locus Award (Nominee — Young Adult Novel — 2008)
Mythopoeic Awards (Finalist — Children's Literature — 2008)
SF Site Reader's Choice (2007)
SF Site Editor's Choice (2007)
USBBY Outstanding International Book (Grades 6-8 — 2008)
Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing (Nominee — 2008)
Independent Booksellers' Book Prize (Shortlist — 2008)
BILBY: Books I Love Best Yearly (Older Readers — 2008)
Geffen Award (2008)
Kids' Book Choice Awards (Finalist — Author of the Year — 2008)
Golden Archer Award (Nominee — 2009)
IBBY Honour Book (2010)
Odyssey Award (Honor — 2008)
3 Apples Book Award (Winner — Teens — 2010)
Berkshire Book Award (Winner — 2007)
Marble Faun (Ukraine) (2007)
The New York Times Notable Books of the Year (Fiction & Poetry — 2007)
Whitcoulls Top 100 Books (11 — 2010)
Best Fiction for Young Adults (Selection — 2008)
CCBC Choices (2008)
Children's Favorites Awards (Winner — Author of the Year — 2008)
Notable Children's Book (2008)
Lexile
980L
Original language
English
Original publication date
2007-07-21
Subjects
Media reviews
The shallowness of Rowling’s enterprise is revealed in the vapid little epilogue that seems inspired less by great fiction than B-list Hollywood scripts. Where the cataclysmic showdown in The Lord of the Rings leaves the Hobbits and Middle-earth irrevocably altered even in victory, the wizarding
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world merely returns to business as usual, restoring its most famous citizens to a life of middle-class comfort. At the end of this overly long saga, the reader leaves with the impression that what Harry was fighting for all along was his right–and now that of his children–to play Quidditch, cast cool spells and shop for the right wand. Or what George Bush would call “our way of life.” Show Less
All great writers are wizards. Considering the mass Harrysteria of the last few days, who would have been surprised if they had logged on to YouTube at 12.01 a.m. Saturday and seen J.K. Rowling pronounce a curse -- "Mutatio libri!" -- that would magically change the final pages of her book and foil
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the overeager reviewers and Web spoilsports who revealed its surprise ending? Show Less
Potter fans, relax—this review packs no spoilers. Instead, we’re taking advantage of our public platform to praise Rowling for the excellence of her plotting. We can’t think of anyone else who has sustained such an intricate, endlessly inventive plot over seven thick volumes and so constantly
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surprised us with twists, well-laid traps and Purloined Letter–style tricks. Hallows continues the tradition, both with sly feats of legerdemain and with several altogether new, unexpected elements. Perhaps some of the surprises in Hallows don’t have quite the punch as those of earlier books, but that may be because of the thoroughness and consistency with which Rowling has created her magical universe, and because we’ve so raptly absorbed its rules. Show Less
Everyone knows that the Harry Potter books have been getting darker. With an introductory epigraph from Aeschylus's The Libation Bearers ("Oh, the torment bred in the race/the grinding scream of death") there is no doubt that the seventh and last volume in the sequence will face us with darkness
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visible. Show Less
We all know what's going to happen in this book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, supposedly the final episode in the Harry Potter series. This is the long-awaited final showdown between Harry Potter and his arch-enemy, the Dark Lord, You-Know-Who, Voldemort.
So, here it is at last: The final confrontation between Harry Potter, the Boy Who Lived, the Chosen One, the “symbol of hope” for both the Wizard and Muggle worlds, and Lord Voldemort, He Who Must Not Be Named, the nefarious leader of the Death Eaters and would-be ruler of all. Good versus
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Evil. Love versus Hate. The Seeker versus the Dark Lord. Show Less
Rowling fulfills the promise of earlier volumes, tying up loose threads, deepening character complexities to match Harry’s evolving recognition of life’s shades of gray, pulling out every emotional stop, and leading her hero into adulthood while still producing the most focused plot line and
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layered, heart-in-throat climax of the series. Show Less
Physical description
17 p.; 5.4 inches
ISBN
0739360388 / 9780739360385