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Review: The Cursed Child

Jul 31, 2016 20:11

So no HUGE spoilers (except what I've spoiled tagged), but there is some commentary. (And there may be spoilers in the comments.) This is actually more positive than the brief review I gave the first few scenes.
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Comments 19

lyssa027 August 1 2016, 02:07:53 UTC

I read it, but I just didn't really enjoy it :/ It wasn't Harry Potter to me maybe because it was a play and not a novel

author_by_night August 1 2016, 16:58:43 UTC

Well, it's definitely very different from the books. It wasn't really canon for me.

Also, not everyone likes play format, so there is that.

belleweather August 1 2016, 16:11:44 UTC

I LOVED it. But a) I adore Draco and b) I saw the play, so I had the benefit of great acting as well as some amazing stagecraft to tell the story for me.

author_by_night August 1 2016, 16:57:19 UTC

I meant to add that it's a GREAT play for Draco fans. I'm not as big a Draco fan as you, but I appreciated seeing a different side of him. (I can imagine it resonates even more on stage.)

I do wish that we had met Astoria, though!

ani_bester August 1 2016, 17:43:38 UTC

i feel a bit more optomistic based in your review.
Voldie's daughter never worried me as much as the dynamics of the characters.

Maybe it has an unreliable narrator and so adults are oerhals a bit more standoff from.a child's POV than they really would be.

I still don't even have the book. We are waiting in it from amazon. As much fun as my husband and I had at the release party, we did not want to be obligated to being up till midnight with tiny Thomas.

author_by_night August 2 2016, 12:45:26 UTC

Yeah, be optimistic. :)

Cursed Child - Spoilers anonymous August 1 2016, 19:52:42 UTC

Here from the SQ LJ ( ... )

Re: Cursed Child - Spoilers author_by_night August 2 2016, 12:47:32 UTC

Oh, hi! *Waves* Long time, no see/post.

The nostalgia, it kills me. Ten years later, and here I am, reading and writing about Harry Potter on LiveJournal again.

I know, right?

Yeah, Delphi was a little bit fanficcy. I can forgive JKR (and the other guys) not realizing they'd invoked the biggest fanfic cliche of all Harry Potter history, but still. The delivery isn't so bad, though. Same with the Dursley flashbacks.

Re: Cursed Child - Spoilers anonymous August 2 2016, 19:35:51 UTC

I'll just have to stop being a cheapskate and buy it. :)

Thanks again for the review. Now I just need to persuade some people to have a flame war about Scor/Albus vs Scor/Rose and I'll feel I never left the three year summer.

iulia_linnea August 4 2016, 00:47:59 UTC

If you enjoyed the play in spite of your reservations, it makes me think that I might be able to, as well. So far, all the other readers whose reviews I've read just flat out despise it, and I'd been thinking, well, perhaps I don't want to buy the book. Now, I think I might give it a go. :)