Saturday, April 14, 2012

J.K. Rowling strikes back with The Casual Vacancy

The creator of millions of dollaras saga, Harry Potter, has come back to the rodeo. This time she is releasing and adult novel called "The Casual Vacancy" (by adult I mean non teenager, kids, abracadabra, not a written synopsis of Devil in Mrs. Jones). The plot of this new book? her publisher revealed it as:  A man named Barry Fairweather who “dies unexpectedly in his early forties, the little town of Pagford is left in shock Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty façade is a town at war. Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils…. Pagford is not what it first seems.And the empty seat left by Barry on the town’s council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen. Who will triumph in an election fraught with passion, duplicity and unexpected revelations?


It don't know what to expect from that story. The issue here is that Harry Potter was a teen oriented novel and that fanbase has now grown up. So it seems she is moving to adulthood with her "not-anymore teens".  Who are going to be the main characters, that is yet to be disclosed; however, a love triangle is probably what will come out of this. There might be a "secret society" that runs the town and has controlled the lives of every member of it, dictating what they will like and hate with the exclamation point being the apparent anarchy. Well that is my take on the book. Maybe I will be wrong.

The book (and e-book) is comming out on September, but you can pre order it now on amazon



Would it be a majoc succces as the young wizard adventures that ma de her famous? Should she stay on children book? or it is a step forward on her carreer to move to more adult situations? Anyway, it is her second story and everybody would want to talk about it. 

Anyway, the woman deserves much respect for being a mom at home taking care of her children and follower a decision to change her life and start to write. Who would have said it. Maybe you (or me) are the next J.K.

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