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A review by ferdireads
Lost in the Never Woods by Aiden Thomas
2.0
unlike almost everyone else in the reviews, i've never read the author's debut novel "cemetery boys", this is the first book i've read by them and wow...the disappointment.
this was such a wattpad-like book in the sense that the main character is underdeveloped, confused all the time, and never acts their age. the story develops so slowly that it gets boring (i almost fell asleep at several parts). peter's character was the only one i liked. it's like a better version than his original character, less selfish and a lot more caring. wendy, on the other hand, was always lost, never knew how she felt abt peter, was always whinging, and her amnesia made everything so much more unbearable. she also never acted like an 18 yr old, either.
another thing that bothered me a bit was the fact that one of the only poc characters was only around for like 5 chapters and the epilogue. i was sorely disappointed when i found out that she wasn't gonna be a part of this big ol' adventure to find peter's shadow and stop the kidnappings from happening. her only purpose in the book was to comfort and confront wendy whenever it was necessary. honestly, wasted potential.
finally (spoiler warning), the whole idea of neverland being this pseudo-heaven that the spirits of children go to........ugh i didn't like it. i really didn't.
it would have been an interesting take......if only it hadn't existed on the internet for like more than a decade now. like who hasn't seen that whole "peter pan is an angel who takes children who died to neverland" theory floating around the internet? anyone on the internet in the early 2010s knows abt those crazy (dark) disney theories, like c'mon. (that's honestly another reason why this felt so wattpad-y).
anyway, yeah. i hoped that the negative reviews would have been proved wrong, especially considering that this is a peter pan retelling. sadly, it didn't do the source material justice.
this was such a wattpad-like book in the sense that the main character is underdeveloped, confused all the time, and never acts their age. the story develops so slowly that it gets boring (i almost fell asleep at several parts). peter's character was the only one i liked. it's like a better version than his original character, less selfish and a lot more caring. wendy, on the other hand, was always lost, never knew how she felt abt peter, was always whinging, and her amnesia made everything so much more unbearable. she also never acted like an 18 yr old, either.
another thing that bothered me a bit was the fact that one of the only poc characters was only around for like 5 chapters and the epilogue. i was sorely disappointed when i found out that she wasn't gonna be a part of this big ol' adventure to find peter's shadow and stop the kidnappings from happening. her only purpose in the book was to comfort and confront wendy whenever it was necessary. honestly, wasted potential.
finally (spoiler warning), the whole idea of neverland being this pseudo-heaven that the spirits of children go to........ugh i didn't like it. i really didn't.
it would have been an interesting take......if only it hadn't existed on the internet for like more than a decade now. like who hasn't seen that whole "peter pan is an angel who takes children who died to neverland" theory floating around the internet? anyone on the internet in the early 2010s knows abt those crazy (dark) disney theories, like c'mon. (that's honestly another reason why this felt so wattpad-y).
anyway, yeah. i hoped that the negative reviews would have been proved wrong, especially considering that this is a peter pan retelling. sadly, it didn't do the source material justice.