Although the eighth book of the beloved series was long-awaited, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is sadly not what readers expected.

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, released July 31, is a play and book written by J.K Rowling, the author of the original Harry Potter series, John Tiffany and Jack Thorne. It follows the famous series as the eighth installment which takes place 19 years after the end of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. The play is currently being performed at the West End Palace Theatre in London. The script was released as a hardcover book.

But for unfortunately Harry Potter fans, this book was a disappointment.

“I was personally not a fan of this script,” said senior Rebecca Franke, president of the Harry Potter Alliance Club. “I do recognize that this is not the intended format of this story and that I might enjoy it in play form, but after reading the script I was not impressed.”

Many Potterheads decided that the script was similar to a fanfiction like so many others put on the internet today.

“It just felt like a poorly written story made by some fan who wanted more out of the series,” Franke said.

Some readers were even upset at the fact that Harry Potter and the Cursed Child was released in script form instead of written as a book.

“Rowling, you owe your fans a BOOK! I’d like to rename this ‘Harry Potter and the great scam,'” a reviewer on Amazon.com wrote.

However, the book isn’t too dismaying. Among the many negative reviews, The Cursed Child got many positive ones as well. Readers were immensely excited to know that the beloved series would continue by the release of the play and script.

“The Cursed Child is mostly similar to the Harry Potter series in that it has the familiar settings and so many characters that the majority of the readers know and love,” Franke explained.

The script became the fastest-selling hardcover book in the UK of the decade and the fastest-selling script ever with a record breaking sale of 680,000 in the first three days.

“If it continues to sell at this rate, it will be the second biggest-selling single week for one title since records began, with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows as the first, which sold 1.8m copies plus 780,000 units of the adult edition in its launch week in July 2007,” Lisa Campbell from The Bookseller wrote.

The first batch of 250,000 tickets for the play at the West End Palace Theatre sold out within 24 hours of them going on sale.

Albeit Harry Potter and the Cursed Child was a flop to the fans, it wasn’t a flop in the bookstores and the box office. J.K Rowling may have said that “Harry is done now,” but fans know that the magic will live on forever.