THE BLURB:
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 seem doomed. But it's the arrival of Wendy Darling, an 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.
MY THOUGHTS:
This magical book narrated by Tinkerbell tells the Peter Pan story through the eyes of Tiger Lily, a remarkable girl from the Sky Eater tribe of Neverland. Rather than a fun romp, this tale was poignant and haunting, in a beautiful way.
Tiger Lily is the adopted daughter of the tribe's transsexual shaman, but she often feels more herself when running wild through the forest, untethered by society. This fearsome nature along with her stoicism in social situations makes her something of an outcast, and rumor among her neighbors is that she is cursed.
Tiger Lily's life changes when she meets the lost boys, headed by Peter. Here is where I struggled a bit with the story - everyone is supposed to just love Peter, he is utterly irresistible to every person (and mermaid) around him and breaks hearts without even realizing he does it. But I never really understood him at all in this book. The author tried to convince us of his many virtues, but I just didn't get it. I missed what everyone else apparently sees in him. I saw nothing that showed me why he and Tiger Lily were supposedly in love. So that part fell kind of flat for me.
In the end, though, I took it at face value that everyone loves Peter, and so my heart broke with Tiger Lily's when her whole world crumbled around her. The English find the shores of Neverland, Peter follows the pert and pretty Wendy back to England, the missionaries infect the minds of her tribes people, altering their way of life and poisoning them against her father and driving him to despair.
When entering adulthood, Tiger Lily saw changes tear through her world, and nothing can ever be the same again. She suffers dear losses. And she comes to terms with who she is and what it is in life that is truly important.
MY RATING:
4.5 booksies!
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