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Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard by Tom Felton

11 reviews

juliannaferroni's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Drug use, and Alcohol

Moderate: Addiction and Bullying

Minor: Cancer, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Blood, and Vomit

chezler24's review against another edition

informative lighthearted reflective fast-paced

3.25

Listened to the audio book, and really enjoyed Tom Felton's narration. It made it really easy to listen to and the storytelling was quite fluid. Definitely would have devoured this back during my peak Harry Potter enjoyment.  It was interesting getting to hear about the different actors he met, learning about his family life, and seeing the progression from childhood actor into adult. I do feel that this felt like the first part in a memoir. Tom is still relatively young and has a good chunk of life left to live; it just so happened that he was part of such a worldwide phenomenon from a young age. I felt like we just barely scratched the surface at what makes him tick. The final chapters (dealing with life post-Potter and dealing with finding work, developing an alcohol addition, and undergoing rehab) started to touch on some deeper musings beyond the rosier picture that was painted with the average family life, star studded sets, and stellar career. As a closer look at life of a "muggle playing a wizard," this gave a lot of interesting perspective; however, as a memoir I feel like there just needs to be a bit more room to grow and breathe or maybe to include some more "realness" or "rawness" behind the "behind the scenes" passages. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Alcoholism, Bullying, Death, Drug use, Mental illness, Forced institutionalization, and Vomit

crashedandburned's review against another edition

emotional funny inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Alcoholism, Drug use, Violence, and Vomit

skylover's review against another edition

emotional funny inspiring lighthearted reflective slow-paced

3.0

Would recommend for the Potter head fans. Having only seen the movies, I was interested to learn the behind the scenes of the wizarding world, and this book does just that. Felt a tad repetitive with the wording or comparison of his fame to the iconic trio of Daniel, Rupert, and Emma. Tom definitely seemed to have Draco energy, despite his many sentences insisting he wasn't. Lastly, felt like he had imposter syndrome about his own career, saying he didn't do anything special to get the part of Draco and didn't think much of acting, but kept getting all these roles. I wanted to shake him and say but look what you did compared to the 1000 other kids who auditioned!! His fam sounded cute and supportive though which was nice. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Alcoholism and Vomit

lapuce1006's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Mental illness, and Alcohol

Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Blood, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Vomit

mariavdl's review against another edition

funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

Only complaint I have about this book is that it isn't longer.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Alcoholism, Bullying, Mental illness, Vomit, Stalking, and Injury/Injury detail

marasnextread's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

4.5

It was really good! It was entertaining, funny, and way better than I expected it to be!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction and Mental illness

Minor: Forced institutionalization and Vomit

insanebookperson's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Bullying, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Medical content, and Alcohol

erikathomas998's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing fast-paced

5.0

Thank you, Tom Felton for baring your soul in this book. You made me laugh, cry, and feel less alone (especially since I am going through a tough mental health period atm). Beautifully written and the narration was perfect.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Vomit, and Alcohol

damntessa's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

4.5

Finished this in one day. Its a mixture of heartfelt, funny and/or interesting collection of anecdotes with a major focus on his time on the set of Harry Potter.

The book finishes up with two very personal chapters on Toms time after HP (or Potter as he calls it), in which he describes his struggles with mental health.

As a big fan of the HP franchise, I find great pleasure in his anecdotes about the shoots. However I feel like his personal anecdotes, unrelated to the movies is super interesting and I wish, that he expanded more on those stories.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Alcohol

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Vomit