Has anyone else finished it yet?
I really enjoyed it. I like a good who dun it. I'll certainly read the next one in the series.

I'm not sure that it's about media hype so much as people tend to buy the new books written by their favourite authors and JK Rowling is a favourite author of lots of people. I tend to read books by authors I've enjoyed before. I bought The Casual Vacancy on the strength of her previous work but I probably wouldn't have bought another novel published under her name without reading some cracker reviews of it.