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Powell's Q&A | January 17, 2012
By Ryan Boudinot
Describe your latest work. Blueprints of the Afterlife is a novel about the following things: giant heads that appear in the sky, a mystical...
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"[T]rue to its roots, [the series] ends...with good old-fashioned closure: a big-screen, heart-racing, bone-chilling confrontation and an epilogue that clearly lays out people's fates....While Ms. Rowling's astonishingly limber voice still moves effortlessly between Ron's adolescent sarcasm and Harry's growing solemnity, from youthful exuberance to more philosophical gravity, Deathly Hallows is, for the most part, a somber book that marks Harry's final initiation into the complexities and sadnesses of adulthood." Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
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 "This is a powerful, unforgettable setup for the finale. The hardest thing about Half-Blood Prince is where it leaves us — in mourning for who has been lost, anxious to learn how Rowling will wrap up a saga that millions wish would go on and on." Associated Press
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 "If
[Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire] was the work of a born storyteller
still sorting out her technique, Phoenix is the smooth product of a natural
at the top of her game. Phoenix is even longer than Goblet, but
it never idles or slackens. There's less reliance on startling tricks and reversals
and more attention to the underlying organic structures of art....It's a sign
that wherever she takes us next, we can't expect the old rules to apply anymore.
But that, after all, is what growing up is all about." Laura Miller, Salon.com
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 "Like
all great fantasy sagas, the Harry Potter books have grown narratively, morally
and psychologically more complex as the series progresses. There is a special
pressure on a writer who midway through a series finds herself entrusted with
the imagination of a huge number of readers. That Rowling has done nothing to
break that faith seems a deed as brave and noble as any her hero has accomplished." Charles Taylor, Salon.com
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 "The
main characters and the continuing story both come along so smartly...that the
book seems shorter than its page count: have readers clear their calendars if
they are fans, or get out of the way if they are not." Kirkus Reviews
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 "Fans
of the phenomenally popular Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone won't
be disappointed....The novel is marked throughout by the same sly and sophisticated
humor found in the first book, along with inventive, new, matter-of-fact uses
of magic that will once again have readers longing to emulate Harry and his wizard
friends." Susan L. Rogers, School Library Journal
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 "On
the whole, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone is as funny, moving and
impressive as the story behind it. J. K. Rowling, a teacher by training, was
a 30-year-old single mother living on welfare in a cold one-bedroom flat in Edinburgh
when she began writing it in longhand during her baby daughter's nap times. But
like Harry Potter, she had wizardry inside, and has soared beyond her modest
Muggle surroundings to achieve something quite special." Michael Winerip,
The New York Times Book Review, 1999
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