This is definitely not your typical Harry Potter book. It was very unusual to read a script format for me and it did take a little bit to get used to. The story definitely picked up near the end but for me it was missing something that I just couldn't quite place. It may have been that I just did not know this character and there wasn't enough character building for me to have any connection with Albus or Scorpius. If it was in book format I think it would have been fine. (view spoiler)[I just cannot figure out when Bellatrix was pregnant in the original series because she was around quite a lot in the later books and not once was it mentioned she was looking pregnant. I didn't think she disappeared long enough to have had a child either. (hide spoiler)]