Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

I wasn’t going to read HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD, but someone loaned me their copy, so why not read it?

Obviously, it’s not an actual novel, but a script of a play (though from the way the publisher marketed it, you would never guess it). That said, it’s a pretty good story. I once heard it said that the best Young Adult fiction is about either 1.) children dealing with the absence of parents, and 2.) children coming to terms with their parents, and the script does both entertainingly.

It must have been a hideously expensive play to produce – all those special effects, and all those quick scene changes!

That said, I do think it’s something of a missed opportunity. Instead of a play script, it should have been adapted into a trilogy of books. It has exactly the right structure for a trilogy, and it would have made a mint.

So, a good story, just be aware it is a play script, and not a novel.

-JM