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3.15 AVERAGE
3.15 AVERAGE
Second time reading this, the 2-star rating still stands. I love Harry Potter, but I just can't support this book/script. It's so incredibly bad... the only reason I gave it a 2 instead of a 1 is because of Scorpius and the last scene.
I've heard many times that this is something you have to see live, and so I guess I'll reserve my (full) judgement until I'm able to do so.
I've heard many times that this is something you have to see live, and so I guess I'll reserve my (full) judgement until I'm able to do so.
It’s difficult to read the script. Would rather watch the play and get the full effect.
Great read! Definitely a nice follow-up to the Harry Potter series.
adventurous
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I have no idea how to rate this.
Being the Harry Potter freak I am, I can't give this book a low rating, but I can't bring myself to give it 5 stars either. It's not J.K.Rowling, it read more like one of those fanfictions I spent a long time reading in my high school years.
I'm thankful for a new "more canon than others" Harry Potter writing, but the number of plot holes and inconsistencies in this book were unbearable. Hermione, despite her position, Ron, and Harry, feel like they haven't grown up one bit. Harry is a terrible father and the whole Time-Turner storyline didn't make sense at times. I have to say that part of my dismay at this book is because of the play format, it didn't do this book justice - in my opinion - a novelization would have been better. I would've preferred it million times better if Rowling wrote this, but they just plastered her name on the cover to promote it.
Surprisingly, my favorite part of this book Was Scorpious Malfoy, he's a wonderful kid, with a good-written sense of humor. I think that the writer of this play failed to imitate Rowling's way of writing Ron's humor, Harry's sarcasm, or Hermione's dedication, but when it comes to Scorpious, who's an original character for this play, he was written very well. Albus served his role, but the Malfoys certainly were the stars of this play, which surprised me, since Draco WAS my least favorite through Harry Potter books, but he won me over, him and his wonderful son, Scorpious.
I know that I'm thankful to be able to read anything new for Harry Potter, I've been waiting for years, but this just feels like just another fanfiction. I like fanfiction, but when a book - an official something - comes out, I expected it to have more authenticity than this. I'll give this 4 stars because Harry Potter is true love, and god knows how special this book is to me, but that doesn't mean that this book is entirely deserving of these four stars. I mean who would've thought that I would CRINGE reading Harry Potter? I'm sad, but I still love Harry Potter.
Being the Harry Potter freak I am, I can't give this book a low rating, but I can't bring myself to give it 5 stars either. It's not J.K.Rowling, it read more like one of those fanfictions I spent a long time reading in my high school years.
I'm thankful for a new "more canon than others" Harry Potter writing, but the number of plot holes and inconsistencies in this book were unbearable. Hermione, despite her position, Ron, and Harry, feel like they haven't grown up one bit. Harry is a terrible father and the whole Time-Turner storyline didn't make sense at times. I have to say that part of my dismay at this book is because of the play format, it didn't do this book justice - in my opinion - a novelization would have been better. I would've preferred it million times better if Rowling wrote this, but they just plastered her name on the cover to promote it.
Surprisingly, my favorite part of this book Was Scorpious Malfoy, he's a wonderful kid, with a good-written sense of humor. I think that the writer of this play failed to imitate Rowling's way of writing Ron's humor, Harry's sarcasm, or Hermione's dedication, but when it comes to Scorpious, who's an original character for this play, he was written very well. Albus served his role, but the Malfoys certainly were the stars of this play, which surprised me, since Draco WAS my least favorite through Harry Potter books, but he won me over, him and his wonderful son, Scorpious.
I know that I'm thankful to be able to read anything new for Harry Potter, I've been waiting for years, but this just feels like just another fanfiction. I like fanfiction, but when a book - an official something - comes out, I expected it to have more authenticity than this. I'll give this 4 stars because Harry Potter is true love, and god knows how special this book is to me, but that doesn't mean that this book is entirely deserving of these four stars. I mean who would've thought that I would CRINGE reading Harry Potter? I'm sad, but I still love Harry Potter.
This is one of those books/ stories where the plot itself is very good, but because I'm such a Harry Potter fan and I'd rather have original work as well as other works by JK Rowling. It's really weird reading this doll of writing. Number one. Overall it's a play or a screenplay style reading so it's not like we're actually getting a full story with extra details and stuff like that. We're literally getting a screenplay like the actors would be getting so it's definitely on that. No on that. If you're looking at it that way then it's definitely different. But overall I think the plot itself is very good. The style of writing is just not something I'm used to when it comes down to Harry Potter and all that. But it's also very interesting to see how other people will view or look at the Harry Potter cast and characters how they would interpret how they would be as an adult because in my own head. I've read this book now, three different times and for me reading this story there's a lot of things that like I just couldn't see an older generation of characters saying or doing. Also side note I would have loved to sing or hear from Neville. I would have loved to get an update for Draco Malfoy it's like old friends I see like what they were up to. I would have. There's just a lot that I wish they would have touched on in the morning. I read this the more times I read this over and over them more. Think about that.
2 OUT OF 5 STARS
I'm going to keep it brief. The Malfoys are the saving grace of this story. Well maybe not its saving grace, but at least the best part of the whole script as they come across as the most interesting. I didn't 100% hate this, but the plot-holes and the inconsistencies, and the convenient plot points are distracting and disappointing. Based solely on the script I don't think I'll read it again.
I'm going to keep it brief. The Malfoys are the saving grace of this story. Well maybe not its saving grace, but at least the best part of the whole script as they come across as the most interesting. I didn't 100% hate this, but the plot-holes and the inconsistencies, and the convenient plot points are distracting and disappointing. Based solely on the script I don't think I'll read it again.
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Basically reads as a fanfiction of Harry Potter except the story was not written well... I understand that it was written largely by a playwright and not Rowling, or at least, it must have been because we read this right after finishing Deathly Hallows and the characters act and speak very differently... But generally speaking, the plot was poorly written and organized and honestly, just felt like fanfiction.
adventurous
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes