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Darling by K. Ancrum

18 reviews

toriwatson's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Violence, Murder, and Adult/minor relationship

onemamareads's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Read my full review here: https://onemamassummer.weebly.com/book-reviews/darling

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Abandonment, Alcohol, Murder, Gaslighting, Violence, Child death, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Police brutality

readandfindout's review

dark fast-paced

3.75

Style/writing: 3.5 stars
Themes: 3.5 stars
Characters: 4 stars
Plot: 4 stars

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Kidnapping, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Murder, Death, Violence, Emotional abuse, and Police brutality

Minor: Child death

achay91's review

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, and Police brutality

Moderate: Cursing, Murder, Death, and Abandonment

Minor: Blood, Adult/minor relationship, and Child death

dragonwriter's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

I love when Peter Pan is evil.

The story kept to a single night, and, at first, you think it’s a fun retelling, but the dread slowly grows until you’re screaming! 
I was incredibly invested in all of the characters, drawn in by what they were going through and only wanting the best for them. I also really appreciated how Ancrum incorporated little details from the original Peter Pan in modern Chicago. 
I thoroughly enjoyed myself the whole way through!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Murder, Police brutality, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Kidnapping

mandkips's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Kidnapping, and Child abuse

Moderate: Violence, Emotional abuse, and Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Child death, Murder, and Police brutality

dlrosebyh's review

adventurous dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

The first night Wendy Darling spends in Chicago, a boy named Peter shows up at her window. She decides to accompany him on a night out since she finds him to be fascinating, alluring, and gorgeous. 

Wendy believes they are going to a party, but they soon begin racing through the city's underworld. She makes friends with the lost guys Peter looks for as well as Tinkerbelle, a punk girl. And as Peter's deadly secrets begin to surface, she begins to develop enemies, including the scary Detective Hook and maybe Peter himself. Can Wendy muster the fortitude to make it through this evening and ensure that everyone else does as well?

I adore traditional tales that have been given a dark twist. I like the suspense element of this story, but I felt that everything happened far too quickly. I hated the majority of the characters, but the plot thankfully kept the book alive. Reading another thriller with dimwitted people was intolerable.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child abuse, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Violence, Adult/minor relationship, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Murder and Police brutality

blissfuloctopus's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Cursing, and Murder

Minor: Physical abuse, Kidnapping, Violence, Blood, and Mental illness

looseleafellie's review

dark tense fast-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes

When a mysterious boy named Peter Pan appears at teenager Wendy Darling’s window and invites her for a night out in Chicago, Wendy jumps at the chance to explore her new hometown and escape her parents’ annoying rules. But as their outing turns from fun to sinister, Wendy must uncover Peter’s secrets to survive the night!

You’d be forgiven for thinking that K. Ancrum’s chapter-by-chapter modern Peter Pan retelling is some flavor of fantasy, but it’s actually a YA contemporary thriller with zero magic. However, that doesn’t make it any less darkly enchanting. The city’s atmosphere and the foreboding sense of dread sucked me right in and kept me gripped till the last page!

This book also contains one of the BEST twists I’ve ever read! It’s the kind of bombshell that both shocks you and makes you go, “how did I not see this coming?”

The cast of characters was a wonderful bright spot in such a dark story. My favorites were the punk-rock take on Tinkerbelle and the insufferably flirtatious asexual Russian football player Fyodor, but Wendy herself really grew on me as she gained agency throughout the book.

Overall, if you’re looking for something short, sharp, and deviously clever, I would highly recommend Darling!

CWs: Kidnapping, murder, absent parents, child neglect, loss of limb, poverty, police violence, and mentions of anorexia, homelessness, and inappropriate adult/minor relationships.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Police brutality, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Murder, and Child abuse

Minor: Eating disorder

foreverinastory's review

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Damn what a ride.

Rep: Black female MC with anxiety, asexual Russian male love interest, bisexual white female side character with PTSD, bisexual Chippewa female side character, achillean BIPOC male side characters, male side character with hearing aids, male side character with a prosthetic.

CWs: Adult/minor relationship (not sexual), alcohol consumption, blood, child abuse/neglect, death, gaslighting/extreme manipulation, emotional abuse, kidnapping, mental illness (anxiety/PTSD), murder, panic attacks, stalking, violence, toxic relationship. Moderate: acephobia, gun violence, injury/injury detail, police brutality. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Blood, Child abuse, Death, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Stalking, Violence, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Acephobia/Arophobia, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Police brutality