{"id":1268,"date":"2016-10-24T14:46:50","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T18:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.shutingg.net\/?p=1268"},"modified":"2016-10-24T14:46:50","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T18:46:50","slug":"book-review-harry-potter-and-the-cursed-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catsg.link\/blog\/2016\/10\/24\/1268\/","title":{"rendered":"Book review: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I did not expect much for the eighth Harry Potter book. For one, it was a play writing; for another, J.K.Rowling was merely a co-author.<br \/>\nYet, slowly, I got drawn into it. The familiar scene, continuing from the last chapter of the seventh book, gave me an illusion that the story had never stopped from there. As a play, it was even easier to read than the seven children&#8217;s books. And, better than the authentic ones, this one doesn&#8217;t have a bitter beginning.<br \/>\nIt is not without drawbacks. There were places that I didn&#8217;t feel describing clearly. I had to re-read to find how did something happened. And for some, I still don&#8217;t know. There were even points I doubted the plot itself. Was this meaningless? Wouldn&#8217;t it be better if none of the story happened?<br \/>\nBut, hell, it is a good story! It gave me enough suspense to keep me from putting it down. It was creative. It even had a surprise approaching the end, not as good as J.K.Rowling&#8217;s big story turning surprises though. What is very great about the story is that it kept giving me a touch in the heart, giving me hope. It has its characters as alive as I see them myself. And the characters from the old stories were not just true to the old stories, but had grown with the new developments. Reading the book, I saw human nature, the bright side.<br \/>\nNow I want to fly to London to see the show for myself.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.shutingg.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/1477319175283.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1269\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shutingg.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/1477319175283-269x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Harry Potter and the Cursed Child\" width=\"269\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/catsg.link\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/1477319175283-269x300.jpeg 269w, https:\/\/catsg.link\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/1477319175283-768x858.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/catsg.link\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/1477319175283-917x1024.jpeg 917w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 269px) 100vw, 269px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did not expect much for the eighth Harry Potter book. For one, it was a play writing; for another,\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_shuiyun_en_url":"","_shuiyun_en_title":"","_shuiyun_pick":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"series":[],"place":[],"class_list":["post-1268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","cat-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catsg.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catsg.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catsg.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catsg.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catsg.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/catsg.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1270,"href":"https:\/\/catsg.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268\/revisions\/1270"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catsg.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catsg.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catsg.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catsg.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1268"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catsg.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1268"},{"taxonomy":"place","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catsg.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/place?post=1268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}