Title: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Author: J.K. Rowling
Series: Harry Potter Companion Book
Rating Out of 5: 4 (Really good read!)
My Bookshelves: Urban fantasy, Witches
Pace: Fast
Format: Novel
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Year: 2001
5th sentence, 74th page: A black market in Runespoor eggs and in the serpents themselves has flourished for several centuries.

A copy of Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them resides in almost every wizarding household in the country. Now Muggles too have the chance to discover where the Quintaped lives, what the Puffskein eats and why it is best not to leave milk out for a Knarl.

I can’t wait for this movie to come out – it’s going to be really interesting to see how people are able to change a cute little textbook into something more. I loved constantly discovering new creatures throughout the Harry Potter series, but having the text book just opened me up to a whole new world of discovery.

I thought that the creatures in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them were a great mix of well-known mythology and J.K. Rowling’s imagination. As someone who has a slight obsession with mythology and the paranormal world, this was brilliant and refreshing.

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