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200 pages, Paperback
First published October 20, 2016
Katrina Monroe spins a sinister tale of Peter Pan, the lost boys, Neverland and the Darling Family. In this Peter Pan retelling, the characters are as far away as possible from the happy Darling's created by Disney.
I enjoyed this book somewhat but it really didn't blow me away. I would have felt if you're going to take such artistic liberites with classic novels at least give some background. It was never really explained why Peter was the way he was or why did he just snap? why were the lost boys giving food to the pirates. Also if the lost boys and Peter couldn't grow up and for all intents and purposes they were boys and peter only took children .
On characters i was intrigued with what we had read about the younger Wendy Darling. She was a right bitch who would do anything for Peter. Madge Darling wasn't really convincing as a stong heroine but in retrospect it could be that she felt in over her head. I don't feel other characters were developed enough except to just push this particular story along.
There were allusions to sex in the book which was disturbing to say the least,
This story bares a passing resemblance to Lord of the Flies with the whole children going blood mad when they're alone (I wonder why this seems to be a recurring theme). All in all i felt the story was unfinished, the author just put in the gore just for the sake of having gore in the book and she could have done more to make the story her own.