There are three current threads on this and many more in the past 14 months. I haven’t read the books but I’ve read many longish excerpts and reviews and analyses, which I tend to like better than reading actual kids’ books nowadays, because you get the gist and still feel in adult company so to speak. I don’t really know what’s so great about them. But then I’m too old for them. If it came down to a kids’ book series I had to read I’d love to reread the Pippi Longstocking books instead.
I was talking on another thread about how I would probably have been strongl drawn into the occult even more than I already was if HP had been available, but the occult was already an easy subject to find kids’ entertainment about back then. SInce HP et al seem to be born different, and since Rowling says she didn’t put real spells in the books, well, OK then, as long as the good guys win. But I don’t think they are appropriate for small children, for the reason of fear. The bad guys’ behavior is so graphic.
