Tag: I didn’t expect this to be grown-up Harry Potter and am not suffering from an expectations gap in this case

Y’all know what I hate? I hate it when reviewers say shit like this: Chances are none of these people will be deemed sufficiently “likable” by the pop-culture-coddled, uplift-craving audience that makes up a goodly portion of Rowling fandom. But hats off to her for not toning things down an iota in order to please them. It’s irritating when a reviewer implies that people who didn’t like a book she liked are somehow a less virtuous kind of reader than she is (in this case, the kind of reader who doesn’t want to think about Important Social Issues); or to…