Synopsis:
Strange things are happening in Neverland…
Although Angelina McFarland loves reading fairytales, she never dreamed of falling right into one herself. Literally! But who is this flying boy who saved her? And why doesn’t he want to grow up?
Desperately trying to find a way off this cursed island, Angelina runs into a ruthless pirate. Hook captures her and keeps her trapped on his ship, the Jolly Roger, to lure the flying boy out of his hiding.
But is Hook really the heartless man she heard about? The more time Angel spends with him, the more she starts to wonder. Her growing feelings for him are as intense as shocking, and soon she can’t stop thinking about how soft his lips felt on hers when he kissed her under the stars. As time passes, an old train ticket to London is all she has left to remind her of her former life and why she can’t give up trying to find a way home.
Or is staying in Neverland forever the better choice after all?
Published: April 11th, 2014
My rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5
*Spoilers ahead
Ok, so I was kinda in the mood for a fairytale retelling book…*cough* just finished watching Once Upon A Time *cough* and once I knew that Captain Hook was portrayed as the good guy/love interest…I couldn’t not read it! Which brings me to the review…
All in all, this book was ok. I am a sucker for Peter Pan retellings and the synopsis sounded promising enough, so I thought i’d give it a chance. The plot and writing was quite simple but it was engaging enough that I wanted to read until the end! Hook was a great character and the romance between him and Angel was sweet (not enough to pull on my heartstrings but, sweet.)
Pan kind of disappointed me as being the ‘bad guy’… I mean, we knew next to nothing about him and i feel like he could have had more character development. And, to be honest, he wasn’t even in the book that much. Also, the ending promised a cliffhanger but it wasn’t enough to make me really want to read the sequel.
All in all, this book was alright but everything needed just a bit more development. The best part about this book was Hook because, well, I may or may not have been picturing him as Colin O’Donoghue from OUAT (
