Paperback, 368 pages
German language
Published April 17, 2018 by Carlsen.
The Eighth Story. Nineteen Years Later. Based on an original new story by J.K. Rowling, John Tiffany, and Jack Thorne, a new play by Jack Thorne, "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" is the eighth story in the Harry Potter series and the first official Harry Potter story to be presented on stage. The play will receive its world premiere in London's West End on July 30, 2016. It was always difficult being Harry Potter and it isn't much easier now that he is an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic, a husband and father of three school-age children. While Harry grapples with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs, his youngest son Albus must struggle with the weight of a family legacy he never wanted. As past and present fuse ominously, both father and son learn the uncomfortable truth: sometimes, darkness comes from unexpected places.
This book was great. J.K.R. is a great playwright, too and not only a great author. I enjoyed reading this book and I could recommend it to everyone who enjoyed HP as well.
I didn't enjoy reading this nearly as much as I enjoyed Fantastic Beasts. I don't know if that's a screeenplay vs play script thing, or one I've seen (Beasts) vs. One I haven't. I looked up the plot on Wikipedia, and it seemed mildly interesting, so I may try this one again later.
I think my review would be colored by three things.
The price of the book. The length of the book, and the fact it's just a script from a play dumped onto paper. You could have at least had someone novelized it. I am one who missed. The "it's a script". I saw " from a play" and thought it was a novelization.
THe idea and overall story was great, and maybe on a stage or in a theater I would have been happy.
But when it shows up on my doorstep as a script put in a thick book and parts one and two are really act 1/2 and Act 3/4 when I hit the end entirely too quickly I was left happily disappointed.
Happy that I loved the characters and seeing into the world again. Hit the usual buttons that I enjoyed about the universe with an interesting …
I think my review would be colored by three things.
The price of the book. The length of the book, and the fact it's just a script from a play dumped onto paper. You could have at least had someone novelized it. I am one who missed. The "it's a script". I saw " from a play" and thought it was a novelization.
THe idea and overall story was great, and maybe on a stage or in a theater I would have been happy.
But when it shows up on my doorstep as a script put in a thick book and parts one and two are really act 1/2 and Act 3/4 when I hit the end entirely too quickly I was left happily disappointed.
Happy that I loved the characters and seeing into the world again. Hit the usual buttons that I enjoyed about the universe with an interesting twist or two thrown in, but easily at best would be considered a short story in the book world.
Disappointed as in holy hell I finished this in a few hours in an evening? Look at all this white space wasted on this paper and the big money grab to publish this as a $17.99 "book". Makes the HP7 out 1/2 trend look tame in comparison.
