Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Long review alert! Of course this was a very interesting book to get to know about those magical beasts we have heard and seen about in all the movies/books and bonus that it is read by Eddie Redmayne <3 I do, however, have some reservations after listening to the audiobook. The first thing is that I had to turn this up so loud in order to hear Eddie's voice and the audio was not very well balanced while he was reading. And since I had to turn it up so loud, the background noises were startling and at times, annoying. I tried adjusting my device's audio settings, and nothing helped. Honestly, the book could do without the background noises, bit distracting. Second, I watched all of the movies before listening to any of the books, so of course when listening to the books, all the movies are a bit of a dissapointment and I understand there will always be major differences. The following is what bothered me about this book. Some of the descriptions of these beasts, leave you with "that's it?", just seems like not enough information. In the movie, you see how Newt is able to understand and interact with beasts, yet none of this is said in the book how to maybe safety interact or elude a beast. In the movie, the Demiguise is shown to have psycic abilities as premonitions; the occamy can shrink or expand to fit certain spaces; and the murtlap can have a fatal bite are never mentioned in the book. Lots of "Notes". Even after listening to the introduction "About this book" and getting to the end of the book, I guess I still don't understand what a "fantastic beast" is... There seemed to be soo many beasts missing. Since they are ranked from 1X to 5X; 1X being boring and 5X needing expert handling, I didn't understand why pigmipuffs, blast-ended skrewts, thestrals, qilin, etc. were not listed. Are there differences between magical animals, creatures, monsters, beasts? Not to mention all the supposed creatures Luna Lovegood says exist! These are just the questions I kept having to pause and rant about to my husband while we were listening to the book.

Anyone who says this book is bad is a complete LIAR! they are not a Harry Potter fan and have no idea what they’re talking about because This book is absolutely BRILLIANT! I love it so much and Eddie Redmayne is the perfect narrator. It is so fun to learn more about the wonderful creatures that belong to the Wizarding World. And be able to think that Harry Potter himself once read the same book. Thank you J.K. Rowling, Thank You Eddie Redmayne❤️(Fantastic Beasts movies are brilliant too)

It is hard to believe the person responsible for 7 amazing books wrote a rag story like this. I’m starting to believe JKR is Gilderoy Lockhart and used others as a muse. Nearly 30 minutes is prefaced on the basis of the book being neither here nor there logic.

She needs less activist attention and give more author material.