By Jodi Lynn Anderson
Publication Date: July 3rd, 2012 (Harper Collins Children's Books)
Hardcover, 304 pages
Genre: Retelling; Fantasy; Romance; YA
Source: Library
DESCRIPTION:
Before Peter Pan belonged to Wendy, he belonged to the girl with the crow feather in her hair...Fifteen-year-old Tiger Lily doesn't believe in love stories or happy endings. Then she meets the alluring teenage Peter Pan in the forbidden woods of Neverland and immediately falls under his spell.
Peter is unlike anyone she's ever known. Impetuous and brave, he both scares and enthralls her. As the leader of the Lost Boys, the most fearsome of Neverland's inhabitants, Peter is an unthinkable match for Tiger Lily. Soon, she is risking everything—her family, her future—to be with him. When she is faced with marriage to a terrible man in her own tribe, she must choose between the life she's always known and running away to an uncertain future with Peter.
With enemies threatening to tear them apart, the lovers seemed doomed. But it's the arrival of Wendy Darling, and English girl who's everything Tiger Lily is not, that leads Tiger Lily to discover that the most dangerous enemies can live inside even the most loyal and loving heart.
From the "New York Times" bestselling author of "Peaches" comes a magical and bewitching story of the romance between a fearless heroine and the boy who wouldn't grow up.
-from goodreads.com
REVIEW:
Positives:- Pine Sap (male) and Moon Beam (female), Tiger Lily's friends, were likable because they were the opposite of Tiger Lily's hardness and indifference: they were compassionate, steadfast, trustworthy daydreamers. I found relating to them easier than relating to Tiger Lily.
- Also, I like how the author, Jodi Lynn Anderson, characterizes Wendy a stupid, and clueless dodo bird. It almost makes sense when you think about it.
Negatives:
- The book was incredibly, painstakingly slow. When I had about 100 pages left, I almost quit reading it because I was so bored.
- The book was written from Tinker Bell's perspective, the mute fairy, and while virtually telling the story from the point of view of a bystander was a novel (Ha ha. A pun) idea, it didn't work. The point of view was irritating, and added to the slow pace.
- I was a fan of the main character, Tiger Lily, at first. She was fierce and brave, but then, as the book slowly (and I mean really, really slowly) continued, I found that Tiger Lily didn't show any emotions whatsoever. I wanted her to be a bit more dynamic, especially in the aspects of showing compassion and other benevolent emotions. Heck, I wished she showed any emotion at all! A rock probably has more feelings than Tiger Lily, and after I figured this out, I could care less whether she died, or sat around and did nothing.
- I refuse whole-heartedly to acknowledge that thing in the book as Peter Pan, because of a whole bunch of things Tiger Lily got wrong (these are not spoilers and are safe for the eyes of readers who have not read the book and plan on reading it):
- PETER PAN DOES NOT, NOR WILL HE EVER, HAVE A GIRLFRIEND! (well, he gets one in Tiger Lily)
- PETER PAN DOES NOT "MAKE OUT" WITH ANYONE UNDER ANY CIRCUMATANCES! (he does this a few times in Tiger Lily)
- PETER PAN IS NOT/WILL NOT BE FIFTEEN/SIXTEEN/SEVENTEEN YEARS OLD! EVER! (Peter Pan is somewhere around this age in Tiger Lily)
- PETER PAN CAN FLY AND IS MAGICAL! (there was nothing—NOTHING—magical about Peter Pan or his Lost Boys)
I'm sure my unhealthy love of everything Peter Pan blinded me when I was writing this review, and perhaps someone who's not a hard-core Pan Fan would enjoy this book, but I'm a Peter Pan fangirl (being honest) and I have to say...
Why, cruel, cruel world, would you do this to Peter Pan?!
ONE DOES NOT SIMPLY FLY INTO NEVERLAND AND TREAT PETER PAN THIS WAY!
NON-PETER PAN CRAZED FAN RATING (Who am I kidding? I'm biased):
PETER PAN HYPER-FAN (SUCH AS MYSELF) RATING:
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