Micro review of “Grow Young with Me” by Taliesin19
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:date: 2020-11-19T12:08:29
:category: literature
:tags: review, harryPotter, blogComment

(my reaction_ to the published review_ of “`Grow Young with Me`_”
by Taliesin19)

Except the quality of this review is on par with those on the DVD
box. This is not a review, it is a promotion by a fan. There is
not one weakness found, and although I like the story generally,
it has plenty of those as well.

The glaring one is the length. With 233,370 words it is in the
range of Jane Eyre, Moby Dick, or HP and the Half-Blood Prince.
The question is, does it have enough plot to sustain this length?
The answer is clearly no. There is not much more than “girl meets
a boy, the boy is too lost in his own problems it takes some of
her effort to get him out of his shell, the girl turns up to have
problems as well, they are together”. It is possible to have
a nice novel with so simple plot, but that Pride and Prejudice
(which is similarly simple) is just half of it (120,697 words).

Yes, it could be, that in the modern time with our twenty seconds
clips we are not used to (an example is from “House of the Seven
Gables” by Nathaniel Hawthorne) having a character waking up,
dressing, and walking down the stairs (that’s literally all
that’s happening) in twenty pages. But unfortunately, that’s the
audience the author writes for. And by the way, even The House of
the Seven Gables clocks just 108,616 words.

.. _review:
   https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iXkT4kONZ5NgLylzt_3PuUp65a0Dq8tC5BfSNZSsdcs/mobilebasic

.. _reaction:
   https://www.reddit.com/r/HPfanfiction/comments/ihwqn0/a_in_depth_review_by_valirys_reinhald_on_the_fic/g33yxfv/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

.. _`Grow Young with Me`:
   https://archiveofourown.org/works/16405130