Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince (Gio Punzalan)

Dear J.K. Rowling,

I know why you are the most succesful writer of our time. It's not the money you possess, or the fact that your books have sold more than any other book in the world. It's not the catchy cover page of your books. No, I'd have to say it's because of your words. It's probably your imagination. I think it's the way you write your sentences that it just enters the cranium like a breathless flow of air and gets stucked there like a gum to an innocent shoe.

Now as a teenager, books aren't really my forte. I didn't initially plan on picking your book to read, but since I needed one for Monday's, I decided to give this 652 page book a try.
Now as surprising as this may be, it wasn't that long. Maybe it was the constant page-flicking, or the desire to know what's going to happen next, either way, it went by pretty fast and left me with this insatiable hunger to predict what will happen next. I was like a fish that had been hooked. I think it's your writing and sentences that lured me in. You just tell it like you've seen it, smelled it, heard it. You tell it like it's the story of your life. When I read it, I felt like I was in the story, even though at times, it would have to pause because your vocabulary is somewhat larger than mine. Anyways, you have such a diverse imagination, it's pretty hard to take it all in. The way you tell about Voldemort's past, you give it such an eerie and filthy distain about it, it gives a rookie reader such as I a sort of shiver. In a world where the darkest and most vicious sorcerer has been revived to wreak havoc, I believe it! You keep the ball rolling, and the story never becomes a broken pencil, it never becomes pointless. Whether you're telling about Harry's emerging romantic relationships, or his emotional confusions, you give him conflicts that are also what a mid-adolescent teenager would experience. I think that's why this book sold nine million copies on its first day of release. It's because of the story. It's because you create a world that I so badly want to live in. You create a world where I want to be able to use this thing called magic, and not having that ability makes life a little miserable.

Anyways with all else said, you changed the way I view the world. When "Half-Blood Prince" was all read and done, you made me realize that a story was not only worth telling, it's worth knowing. This book taught me how every person has problems, but it's the way you handle them. This book shows that a huge loss isn't the end of the world, only the end of the chapter, and the beginning of a new one.