Review #441
My author friend and I finally settled on a tandem read- Peter Pan. However apparently it’s a whole collection & a play. So she’s starting on a garden setting one and I just read this one version. I think it’s the original, but honestly I’m not sure.
This is inspired due to writing a Peter Pan gender bent retelling right now called The Never Hour.
I’m surprised by how little Peter flied in the actual story.
I’m loving the illustrations interiorly and how much more easy it is to read than other fairy tales I’ve tried. The pirates had more details than I knew of in the cartoon, so that part was fun.
I also like that Peter is wanting him and the lost boys to be Wendy’s servants because that part didn’t translate for me in the Disney version.
A funny quote for a children’s book- “After a time he [Peter] fell asleep, and some unsteady fairies had to climb over him on their way home from an orgy.”
I liked seeing how some of the scenes had different details compared to the classic movie and left myself wondering why the changes were made and how those decisions were chosen.
(There are so many odd words like
Quixotic- exceedingly idealistic)
This was a short quick read that I enjoyed at the end I became slightly annoyed but the whimsical prose and also… Peter Pan doesn’t learn anything?!? What’s his ARC?
That’s all for now folks.