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Book Review of The Casual Vacancy

The Casual Vacancy
The Casual Vacancy
Author: J. K. Rowling
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Paperback
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Helpful Score: 5


I was surprised to find the first non-Harry Potter book, by their author, offered by PBS. As an 82 year old reader, I enjoyed the movies so wanted to give this book a try. I found it long winded and trite, I'm sorry to say. It is a long book and I plodded along through it, thinking it couldn't get any worse. It did!

I would suggest that Mrs. Rowling stick to writing about little children riding on brooms instead of using her popularity to rope in readers because of prior popularity.