Blurb:
When fifteen-year-old Tiger Lily meets the alluring teenage Peter Pan deep in the forbidden woods of Neverland, the two form an unbreakable bond. As the leader of the Lost Boys, the most fearsome of Neverland’s inhabitants, Peter is an unthinkable match for Tiger Lily. And yet, she is willing to risk everything—her family, her future—to be with him.
Then an English girl named Wendy Darling arrives on the island. With dangers tightening around them, Tiger Lily soon finds out how far she is willing to go to keep Peter with her in Neverland…and discovers that the deadliest enemies lurk inside even the most loyal and loving heart.
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My comments:
So the natives to Neverland are afraid of the Englander who crashed on their island because they don’t want to catch his disease of ‘aging.’ So far I can’t figure out if Tink and Tiger Lily are the same species or not.
The audiobook narrator sounds age 14 so I’m unsure if this is middle school grade genre because the Englander is described as a man. I’m assuming the love story is between Tiger Lily and the new man kind of like Pocahontas and John Smith is portrayed. But the blurb sounds like it’s with Peter.
I don’t like the fixation on gender stereotyes that have been brought up more than once… this doesn’t seem like a good fit for me. But I have 7 other Peter Pan retellings to try. Do you have any to recommend?