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samanthajayne_x's review against another edition
3.0
Loved Loved Loved Loved. It makes me even more excited to see the play, I hope I can go and see it because it would be fantastic.
My review is spoiler free:
https://samanthajaynegrubey.wordpress.com/2016/08/02/spoiler-free-harry-potter-and-the-cursed-child/
My review is spoiler free:
https://samanthajaynegrubey.wordpress.com/2016/08/02/spoiler-free-harry-potter-and-the-cursed-child/
joliek's review against another edition
2.0
I wanted to love this- but to be honest I couldn't. I like the story, and I wanted to know what was going to happen, but as many people have pointed out, I felt much more like a Fan Fic than a continuation of Harry Potter. It wasn't that it was a play- it was the writing itself. Going to take me some time to truly accept this as canon :/
olbeelaine's review against another edition
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
elisenicole's review against another edition
adventurous
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.25
estanceveyrac's review against another edition
Magistral !
Magical !
Fantastic !
Fabulous !
But like, queer-baiting. Tha's terrible. You should really stop that.
Magical !
Fantastic !
Fabulous !
But like, queer-baiting. Tha's terrible. You should really stop that.
fluencer's review against another edition
4.0
So. I am giving a 4 star because it is not possible to give 3.5 stars on Goodreads, and no Harry Potter fan could ever give a Harry Potter book 3 stars. But very few HP fans can give this book 5 stars.
All that has to be said about this book has been said. I don't want to add more.
"There have been too many mistakes where Harry Potter is concerned, Some of them have been my own. That Potter lives is due more to my errors than to his triumphs." - Lord Voldemort
Voldemort is dead. The story is over. Lets move on, please.
All that has to be said about this book has been said. I don't want to add more.
"There have been too many mistakes where Harry Potter is concerned, Some of them have been my own. That Potter lives is due more to my errors than to his triumphs." - Lord Voldemort
Voldemort is dead. The story is over. Lets move on, please.
becrossenrode's review against another edition
3.0
People are judging this so harshly and comparing it to the Harry Potter series which I think is completely wrong. You can't go into this thinking it will be anything like the book series. For starters, the medium is completely different. It's a play not a novel and reads brilliantly like a play. I can truly imagine the wonderful sets, set changes, costuming and stage directions.
The play isn't as serious as the novel series but why should it be? I like that it is so different to the series. I think it would have been a mistake to make it so like the novels. Harry Potter ended at the Deathly Hallows. PERIOD.
Thus, this is just a fun, COMPLETELY DIFFERENT, experience for huge Harry Potter fans to enjoy. I loved this fun and humorous little story. Seeing the play in West End would be AMAZING. I loved meeting all the new characters and saying hello to all the beloved characters.
Overall, I enjoyed Harry Potter and the Cursed Child for what it is, a funny and humorous little script from what I can imagine is an exciting and engaging West End show!!
The play isn't as serious as the novel series but why should it be? I like that it is so different to the series. I think it would have been a mistake to make it so like the novels. Harry Potter ended at the Deathly Hallows. PERIOD.
Thus, this is just a fun, COMPLETELY DIFFERENT, experience for huge Harry Potter fans to enjoy. I loved this fun and humorous little story. Seeing the play in West End would be AMAZING. I loved meeting all the new characters and saying hello to all the beloved characters.
Overall, I enjoyed Harry Potter and the Cursed Child for what it is, a funny and humorous little script from what I can imagine is an exciting and engaging West End show!!
abbiereal's review against another edition
4.0
Rating this a 4 but only because it's Harry Potter! The story is good but it's a screenplay so it lacks the vibrant adverbs, adjectives, and novel storytelling of JK Rowling that we loved through the years.
It's nice to go back to the magical world of The Boy Who Lived albeit a new and unfamiliar one with new characters. The book is an easy read and I get to finish it in two sittings.
Really hoping for "sequels before the epiloque". I am sure that a lot of Potter Fans will be interested to know the lives of Harry, Ron, and Hermione immediately after the Battle at Hogwarts and BEFORE the "19 years after".
It's nice to go back to the magical world of The Boy Who Lived albeit a new and unfamiliar one with new characters. The book is an easy read and I get to finish it in two sittings.
Really hoping for "sequels before the epiloque". I am sure that a lot of Potter Fans will be interested to know the lives of Harry, Ron, and Hermione immediately after the Battle at Hogwarts and BEFORE the "19 years after".
gapagrin's review against another edition
4.0
The eighth Harry Potter story that we've all been waiting for has finally arrived. And my first thoughts are definitely positive. It's a Harry Potter story - I grew up on this series, so was there really any possibility I wasn't going to like it? It's definitely different. Not only is it a play, so while we get the same witty dialogue we're accustomed to from the book series, that's all we really get - I assume that it's better actually seen than just read, so I will have to do that at the soonest opportunity.
We're also working with entirely different characters - the ones off having adventures are new to us, while the ones we're familiar with are now responsible adults with jobs and kids. It's not meant to be a continuation of the Harry Potter series - and I actually rather prefer that. Harry Potter's story was rather well wrapped up in Deathly Hallows - this one does involve Harry, obviously, but it's not as much his story alone anymore.
Perhaps because this is a play and we only get the dialogue (this may be different when seen on-stage), it's much less about magic and the wizarding world - we see almost none of that, except in a few stage directions, leaving the main focus of the story on the relationships between the characters. The story explores all kinds - familial, friendship, even romantic. Everyone's got a lot to learn about each other, except perhaps Scorpius Malfoy, who seems to be the only character in the book with his head screwed on straight.
I was not a fan of Rose Weasley - the second her cousin, who was also supposed to be her friend, befriended someone she didn't approve of, she dumped him. What happened to that inter-house harmony we saw at the end of Deathly Hallows, with all of the students sitting with each other regardless of house affiliation? Rose essentially forces Al to choose between friends and family, which, if she had been a bit more tolerant, shouldn't have had to be a choice at all. You'd think Hermione Granger's daughter would have been a bit more open-minded. It's no wonder he chose the person who wasn't trying to make him choose at all.
There's a lot of time travel - I can't decide if I really liked that or not. It was certainly interesting to explore alternate timelines and what might have happened if even one thing had been slightly different in the books, and to see certain events from the book series in more detail from an outsider's point of view rather than Harry's. And the 'don't muck about with time travel' message is definitely applicable here in a way it wasn't in Prisoner of Azkaban - in that book, we hear a lot about how time travel is dangerous, but it all works out perfectly for Harry and friends, so that's not a lesson that's really hammered home until Cursed Child. On the other hand, time travel meant that we were revisiting a lot of old territory from the books.
Overall, I really liked it. It's funny, it's Harry Potter, and we've finally got Slytherins who aren't evil (as a Pottermore-sorted Slytherin myself, this is much appreciated). It was a quick read and is probably much better seen on-stage than read, but it was enjoyable and I'd recommend it to any fans of Harry Potter. So long as you're not expecting it to be just another one of the books.
We're also working with entirely different characters - the ones off having adventures are new to us, while the ones we're familiar with are now responsible adults with jobs and kids. It's not meant to be a continuation of the Harry Potter series - and I actually rather prefer that. Harry Potter's story was rather well wrapped up in Deathly Hallows - this one does involve Harry, obviously, but it's not as much his story alone anymore.
Perhaps because this is a play and we only get the dialogue (this may be different when seen on-stage), it's much less about magic and the wizarding world - we see almost none of that, except in a few stage directions, leaving the main focus of the story on the relationships between the characters. The story explores all kinds - familial, friendship, even romantic. Everyone's got a lot to learn about each other, except perhaps Scorpius Malfoy, who seems to be the only character in the book with his head screwed on straight.
I was not a fan of Rose Weasley - the second her cousin, who was also supposed to be her friend, befriended someone she didn't approve of, she dumped him. What happened to that inter-house harmony we saw at the end of Deathly Hallows, with all of the students sitting with each other regardless of house affiliation? Rose essentially forces Al to choose between friends and family, which, if she had been a bit more tolerant, shouldn't have had to be a choice at all. You'd think Hermione Granger's daughter would have been a bit more open-minded. It's no wonder he chose the person who wasn't trying to make him choose at all.
There's a lot of time travel - I can't decide if I really liked that or not. It was certainly interesting to explore alternate timelines and what might have happened if even one thing had been slightly different in the books, and to see certain events from the book series in more detail from an outsider's point of view rather than Harry's. And the 'don't muck about with time travel' message is definitely applicable here in a way it wasn't in Prisoner of Azkaban - in that book, we hear a lot about how time travel is dangerous, but it all works out perfectly for Harry and friends, so that's not a lesson that's really hammered home until Cursed Child. On the other hand, time travel meant that we were revisiting a lot of old territory from the books.
Overall, I really liked it. It's funny, it's Harry Potter, and we've finally got Slytherins who aren't evil (as a Pottermore-sorted Slytherin myself, this is much appreciated). It was a quick read and is probably much better seen on-stage than read, but it was enjoyable and I'd recommend it to any fans of Harry Potter. So long as you're not expecting it to be just another one of the books.