Letters to the Editor
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A good review, especially for a parent that has yet to really read the books
All complaints about spoilers, snobbishness and anything else the fans heap upon this review reflect poorly upon the fans, reveal an almost hysteric desire to shout down anybody who complains about it. It's the mentality of a person who suspects that they live in a house of cards, and thus complain bitterly about each gust of wind.
I am, however more likely to give this book a shot, though, since I don't care about the "suspense" and was put off of reading Ms. Rowling's books due to the clunky prose earlier. It seems that she has matured enough for me to give it a shot when I have finished the latest Jasper Fforde, provided that Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett or William Gibson doesn't bring out a new novel in the meantime.
From the review's description, though, it sounds as is seeing her works turned into screenplays has influenced her writing, making chase scenes for the films and also hard-to-film epilogues that feed the fan base (and also try to head off any fan fiction attempts).
I do see one problem, though. The way she ended the epic shows a desire on her part to see the stories as timeless, but makes it harder for me to swallow. When did Harry attend Hogwarts, after all? Jumping that far into the future means that the stories could have taken place in the Eighties, with the final battle coinciding with the fall of Communism, but takes away the contemporary feel the kids love. That does ruin the Suspension of Disbelief for me, but to be quite honest I never could quite accept her world as one that might exist.