Summary:
When children go missing in the small coastal town of Astoria, people look to Wendy for answers.
It's been five years since Wendy and her two brothers went missing in the woods, but when the town’s children start to disappear, the questions surrounding her brothers’ mysterious circumstances are brought back into light. Attempting to flee her past, Wendy almost runs over an unconscious boy lying in the middle of the road, and gets pulled into the mystery haunting the town.
Peter, a boy she thought lived only in her stories, claims that if they don't do something, the missing children will meet the same fate as her brothers. In order to find them and rescue the missing kids, Wendy must confront what's waiting for her in the woods.
The Characters:
Wendy lacked dimension for me. She just felt very flat and the only part of her that was very real and also well done were her grief and emotions. Personality-wise though, I couldn't come up with a single word to describe her.
Peter was better for me since his personality was a lot more fun to read about and he was a much more vibrant character. He was just like the Peter Pan I would picture in my head and he was more complicated than Wendy, even though he was the side character.
The Setting: ahhhhh 😭 (that's me crying in disappointment again). I expected the setting to be in Neverland, or at least in a creepy dark forest, but most of it was set in the regular world, which is where is why the title is so misleading. Lost in the Neverwoods, makes it seem like most of the book would be in some sort of mystical and magical world, when that really wasn't how it was.
Honestly, I'm not even sure why I have it two stars then, maybe because it was still fun to read sometimes and I liked Peter...
My rating: ⭐⭐
This was one of my biggest anticipate releases of 2021, and I was really looking forward to it, but unfortunately, it fell short for me. The cover, title, and synopsis all seemed AMAZING, and I've never read a peter pan retelling before so I really thought I would love it...which is why I'm super disappointed that I didn't 😭
Plot/Pacing: This was my biggest problem. The pacing was just waaay too slow for me, very extremely, slow. The whole first part of the book, until about 68% was very very slow, where nothing was happening except for them eating ice cream, going down waterfalls, and mentioning over and over and over again how time was running out and they had to something.
"But the far more dire reality was that they were running out of time"(58%)
"They were running out of time" (64%)
"Now more than ever, they were running out of time"(65%)
and also the same thing about a bajillion times in a bajillion different ways between that.
The Writing: The writing style was okay, but it wasn't at all how I expected. Maybe I had too high expectations, but I was expecting something magical and whimsical, and this writing style turned out more normal, and a little dull.
The Characters:
Wendy lacked dimension for me. She just felt very flat and the only part of her that was very real and also well done were her grief and emotions. Personality-wise though, I couldn't come up with a single word to describe her.
Peter was better for me since his personality was a lot more fun to read about and he was a much more vibrant character. He was just like the Peter Pan I would picture in my head and he was more complicated than Wendy, even though he was the side character.
The Setting: ahhhhh 😭 (that's me crying in disappointment again). I expected the setting to be in Neverland, or at least in a creepy dark forest, but most of it was set in the regular world, which is where is why the title is so misleading. Lost in the Never woods, makes it seem like most of the book would be in some sort of mystical and magical world, when that really wasn't how it was.
Honestly, I'm not even sure why I have it two stars then, maybe because it was still fun to read sometimes and I liked Peter...
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