The Books With Looks 📚 discussion

This months book of the month is Never Never

If you read the book then please come here and let us know what you think of it.

thanks

Will start as soon as possible ;)

I'll wait to see what you think.

I am halfway through the book and I still can't decide if I like it or not. The classic Peter Pan is one of my favorite childhood fairytales so I am struggling to appreciate the point of view of Peter Pan. It reminds me a lot of the representation of Peter Pan in the show "Once Upon A Time." I am going to keep going and see how I feel in the end.

Ha, I was wondering if it was going to be like once upon a time, I might have to get my wife to read this then as she hated Peter Pan in that show.

I hated Peter Pan on Once Upon a Time as well.

I just finished this book and once again my outlook on Peter Pan is not what I expected it to be before I started this book. I don't want to spoil anything for anyone else I will just say...

It took me more than half of the book to finally let go of my preconceived perception of Peter Pan (the Peter Pan I have loved from the original) and be open to who he was in this book. I really do like the adaptation of how the author showed me why James Hook is who he is and how he came to be that way. Very entertaining and pleasantly surprised how by the end I really enjoyed it.

I think the book is so full of potential but so far it falls flat. The characters are pretty one dimensional and its hard to connect to anyone.

I'm also kinda confused what exactly this books is in terms of target audience. The writing style reminds me more of Middle Grade or Young Adult and yet sometimes it tries to be more adult? Like the author couldn't decide.

I don't have a problem with Peter being portrayed in a certain way. Sociopath Peter Pan is a pretty common interpretation of the character (OUAT is hardly the first one to do it) but here it is done in a kinda boring way.

Oh dear it's getting more and more annoying

haha, you feel like hitting somebody?

It took me almost 3/4 of the way to the book to finally start to come around and enjoy it at all.

Good Luck!

I will write a full review for this one. Its one of the most frustrating reads I had in a long time. There is a good book somewhere inside this mess, too bad it didn't get the chance to say 'hi'