Endless

I am extremely fan of JK Rowling Harry Potter and since I really wanted to see what would this new novel, although the summary moderately tempted me ... And both say, I quickly became disillusioned ...

JK is discovered in another universe, a real universe, ie in a small village named Pagford, close to London, where the death of Barry Fairbrother, a notable, disrupts the quiet life of it.

Indeed, the author emphasizes very many characters, about twenty, all also different from each other. I had a hard time knowing who was who in the first pages 100/150. It quickly becomes clear that this little town is not so quiet: political bickering that last for 50 years; children who hate their parents (although the verb hate is an understatement at times); family feuds, and many others ... Honestly, we even sometimes hard to follow!

His characters are sometimes very dark and without limitation: self-harm, abuse, violence, lies, rape, treason, drug, fraud, piracy, abandonment, humiliation ... All the themes spend there! Most often it is the children who pay the price. We realize that some of them have had as much unhappiness in life than our Harry Potter. But compared to the latter, they can not take refuge in the world of magic or elsewhere.

Apparently unhappy childhood is a recurrent theme at JK Rowling.

Here, the masks fall and all shots are allowed! The reality is disturbing, while the characters are locked in their suffering!

Only the last 100 pages I liked despite great sadness that emerges. Indeed, this is one of the very few times when there is a little suspense and where I wanted to know more ...

To conclude, I will say that the novel is increased and the ubiquitous despair. All this darkness was, moreover, almost made me give up the book. I can tell you that almost 800 pages have seemed interminable.