I’m about to start Harry Potter and the cursed child. Is it worth the read? No spoilers please?
I’m about to start Harry Potter and the cursed child. Is it worth the read? No spoilers please?
7 Answers
You must be logged in to post a comment.
Loading Please wait
Honestly, no. I will never read it again. It read way too much like cheesy fan fiction to me. The storyline didn’t always make much sense. Harry Potter is my favorite series, though.
I think the reason it comes across like fanfiction is because it’s a script, so the setting descriptions and transitions are lacking.
The plot could have been better, but there were fun parts, too.
Don’t expect too much from it and just enjoy it.
I went into it thinking of it more like an extra than a continuation of the original story. To me, the original books are finished and anything I read or watch now is like a bonus. Based on a lot of the comments I read online, a lot of people somehow missed that it was a script, even though that was said all along. Of course a script isn’t going to have the same depth and show character development the way a novel does- that’s where the magic of film making or stage production come into play, or, when reading a script- imagination! I found that I was able to picture the story as it might play out in stage as I was reading, so i enjoyed it. I definitely think you need a bit of imagination and an open mind to enjoy reading the script, otherwise it is just dialogue. I hope I can make it back to London one day to see the play, I think that would be the best way to experience it as it was intended to be experienced. It was a bit fan fictiony to me, and I don’t really delve into fan fic at all, but I did enjoy it as I kind of separated it from the original in my mind.
Not really no, not if you have something good waiting in your tbr pile.
I loved it! I thought it was really fun to go back in that world again and see the characters. I’ll probably never get to see the actual play, so I thought it was a real treat. People get all bent out of shape about it, but I’ll take any new stories any way I can get them.
I disliked it and will never read it again. It reads like fan fiction because it is fan fiction… however, I also viewed the original series as complete and the cursed child as a bonus. If I’d never read it, I wouldn’t have missed much.
Didn’t like it