Tom Boucher reviewed Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter)
Review of 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts One and Two' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
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.