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J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne, John Tiffany: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Hardcover, 2016, Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc.)

The Eighth Story. Nineteen Years Later. Based on an original new story by J.K. Rowling, …

Review of 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts One and Two' on 'Goodreads'

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.