Release Date: July 31, 2016Publisher: Little Brown UK
330 Pages
Based on an original new story by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany, a new play by Jack Thorne, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is the eighth story in the Harry Potter series and the first official Harry Potter story to be presented on stage. The play will receive its world premiere in London’s West End on July 30, 2016.
It was always difficult being Harry Potter and it isn’t much easier now that he is an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic, a husband and father of three school-age children.
While Harry grapples with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs, his youngest son Albus must struggle with the weight of a family legacy he never wanted. As past and present fuse ominously, both father and son learn the uncomfortable truth: sometimes, darkness comes from unexpected places.
On June 26, 1997 the world was introduced to Harry Potter.
Whether you started at the beginning or joined the magic later on, no one can
deny that this book series is one of the best things to happen to literature in
a very long time. I will admit, I didn't read the first book until right before
the first movie was released, but once I did, I was enchanted. Fast forward
many years later, and many emotions later, when we all thought this world was
over, we got Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.
I won't lie. I had extremely mixed emotions about this one.
Yes, I love Harry Potter. But I also love the way that is was wrapped up. Book
7 ended perfectly. I didn't want anything to ruin that. On the other hand, I
was intrigued by this future world that was being introduced to us. So, like
many, I devoured it the moment I opened it.
Book 8 picks up right where 7 ended - our grown up crew all
sending their children off to Hogwarts. But this time we focus on Albus Potter.
When we first meet Albus, he's nervous and a little scared of going off to
Hogwarts, but like his father before him, he gets on the train and instantly
makes a new friend - Scorpious Malfoy (who is freaking adorable). The play fast
forwards their first few years at Hogwarts and we watch Albus become this
extremely sullen teenager who feels the pressures of being Harry Potters son.
Mix that with his best friend who has to deal with the rumors of his birth and you get two outcasts who want to
prove they are more than their last names.
I don't really want to give anything away plot wise, but it
was a very interesting one. But I will agree with a lot of the reviews I've
been reading in which there are holes. But I don't chalk this up to bad
storytelling. More like this was a play. In a play you don't get the pages and
pages of background and descriptions that you normally get in a regular book.
So it was definitely more of a visual imagining. But I love plays and I love
this world so it was easy for me to watch it play out.
Then there were the characters.
Oh man, I knew there would be feels involved but I didn't
expect the FEELS, ya know? I don't want to say, but there's
one scene (fans will know when they read it) that just hit me really hard and,
yeah, I'll admit it, I got teary. I had this book rated at 4 stars when I
started this review and have since bumped it up to five because of the feelings
I'm getting while writing this.
So thank you, JK Rowling for this world and for everything
you've given us since. I've heard that she wants this to be the end of Harry
for her (writing wise) and I completely understand. Rowling has given us the
tools for it to live on forever in our hearts and minds.
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