Well, got the delivery from Amazon yesterday morning, read it yesterday afternoon (much too knackered to do much else – still trying to cope with the jet lag, which is, like, lagging around).

It’s alright. Shorter than the last one (good), a bit rambling (bad) but quite clearly JK Rowling is saving up a lot of the fireworks for the finale in the next book (the structure of which has now been set out quite clearly).

And there’s still room for the Half-Blood Prince to not be what he was presented to be in this book…..