His main criticism is the "lack of time with each character", adds the paper, with most scenes being quite short and the storyline requiring knowledge of the previous Harry Potter instalments. However, ten-year-old speed-reader Toby L’Estrange, who finished the book in 59 minutes, awarded Cursed Child just six out of ten, reports The Independent. It’s also great to see Hermione "ruling the world as Minister of Magic like we always knew that bad bitch would" and Ron "making a non-stop stream of dad jokes because of course he is".It's not perfect, admits Grady, but who cares when it's this enjoyable?
She calls the script "warm, witty, and wildly inventive" and says it's "so much fun to see Harry again, now slightly more world-weary but just as awkwardly heroic as ever". Thank goodness, then, that Cursed Child, even in script form is such a treat, says Constance Grady on Vox. "Bookshops returned to conditions not seen since the last Harry Potter novel was published," says the journalist, who describes the host of midnight openings and notes the unprecedented pre-sale orders, going well into six figures. The "publishing sensation of the decade" is under way with record pre-sales and "a return to the nostalgia of print". Rowling has spent months begging fans to "keep the secrets" of what happens next, but she need not have worried, says Hannah Furness in the Daily Telegraph. There, Harry's younger son, Albus, meets Scorpius, the son of old school foe Draco Malfoy. The script was released on Sunday at midnight and begins where seventh book left off, with a grown-up Harry, Ron and Hermione waving goodbye to their children at King’s Cross as they head off to Hogwarts. The two-part play is currently playing in London's West End, where it has received rave reviews, packed houses and spellbound audiences. It is the script for the new stage play and written by playwright Jack Thorne, based on a story devised in collaboration with JK Rowling and director John Tiffany. But the Cursed Child isn't one of Rowling's doorstopper novels.
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The new story, a continuation of JK Rowling’s best-selling seven-volume saga about a boy wizard, is the first in the series since 2007. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child has gone on sale - and it's already being called "the publishing sensation of the decade".