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Believe me, I would have preferred to read a novel by her, or even a novella - heck, I'll take a short story - than get a quasi-HP novel written by someone else. It is not fair to the script and the work that was done by Tiffany and Thorne.Īll those eager readers who anticipated something from Rowling herself let themselves down by overhyping this book. You can't treat a script which was intended to be a script and nothing more, written by someone else, as a novel written by J.K.Rowling.
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The hype surrounding the play, plus the plot that was kept as a mystery (I remember how many times Rowling had to post on Twitter over and over again how this was NOT a prequel), the fact that we were getting SOMETHING from Rowling again created this craze that completely blinded most of the readers. It looks like a book, so it must be a novel, right?
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But having rights and having your name first on the book cover in big letters does not equal to being the person who wrote the script.Ī lot of people were misled, unintentionally, into thinking that this naturally would be a real, full fleshed novel. Naturally, the book has her name all over it, as you can imagine she holds all rights for anything that has to do with Harry Potter (which is reinforced by a very stern copyright warning inside the book). But the actual script is not written by her. She, obviously, wrote the story (the plot, the outline or an actually story - we do not know, but she came up with the idea) that the play was based on. Rowling, but IT IS NOT ACTUALLY WRITTEN BY HER. It is a script written by John Tiffany and Jack Thorne based on the world and the story by J.K.
Thus, it reads to some people as a very poorly written fanfiction instead of something written by J.K.Rowling. It is a whole different medium and is meant for producers and actors. It has enough production notes for a reader to recreate the actions in one's mind, but it is not written as a novel, therefore doesn't have the same character development and world building. I stressed it out before but will do so again.
Because it has all of our darling characters and familiar world, but IT IS NOT A NOVEL. But I never expected it to be a real novel.Īnd here is where lies a problem for other readers: unless you are completely aware and okay to read a play - you will like it. I was confused as to why it was so expensive and why they would want a script (something that is usually pretty short) published, etc. I did understand that it was a story in Harry Potter universe in a form of a play and will be released as a book. That is why even though I was excited by Pottermore, I never really explored it.Īnd that is why I was not really following any news regarding The Cursed Child. I loved the books and I loved the movies, but I have never been obsessed.
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I have never been that much influenced by the series because I was already an adult and a reader and a fantasy lover before that. I have always loved fantasy: I grew up reading adult fantasy, and only as an adult, quite recently, started reading YA novels.
I have always been an avid reader, ever since I was a kid. I read it and fell in love with it too, naturally.īut for me Harry Potter books have never been as life defying as for some people. I was 23 years old and picked up "Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone" only after my manager, who was 10 years my senior, told me that had read it and loved it. I remember hearing all about Harry Potter books but not really getting the hype. Unlike many people who are in their (late) twenties now, I discovered Harry Potter books when first 3 or 4 books were already out. Allow me to talk about Harry Potter series first.
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