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emilygrn's review against another edition
5.0
This will always and forever be my favourite Fairy Tale!! "Oh Peter"
godotwillseeyounow's review
4.0
Includes spoilers, but then again, we all know how Peter Pan goes...
Peter Pan and Wendy was much more complex than what I was expecting. All the characters had layers to them, specially Peter Pan himself, who often seems rather plain.
There are so many details that I love in this book, for example, the fact that Wendy is a girl and therefore all of them have to listen to her and built a little house for her, that even Peter Pan sacrifices himself so that Wendy doesn't drown, that Smee is absolutely lovable even though he thinks quite the contrary, that Hook isn't completely evil because he likes flowers, that fairies are boys and girls and "little sillies who are not sure what they are", that both Tinker Bell and Wendy are in love with Peter Pan (and maybe Tiger Lilly, too), but he simply does not understand what type of love that is, like a mother's? And that Peter Pan breaks Wendy's heart when he refuses to stay and grow up, that even though Peter Pan is forgetful and a year later when he sees Wendy again he doesn't know who Captain Hook or Tinker Bell are, he hasn't forgotten Wendy, that Wendy grows old and gets married and has daughter, and he still hasn't forgotten her, but doesn't realise how much time has gone by and that Wendy has grown up. That he meets her daughter and teaches her how to fly. The ending, the ending was sad and happy and sad... and the perfect closure.
I loved the beginning and I loved the end, and the middle in between was great too.
And it feels like an awfully modern book for its time.
Peter Pan and Wendy was much more complex than what I was expecting. All the characters had layers to them, specially Peter Pan himself, who often seems rather plain.
There are so many details that I love in this book, for example, the fact that Wendy is a girl and therefore all of them have to listen to her and built a little house for her, that even Peter Pan sacrifices himself so that Wendy doesn't drown, that Smee is absolutely lovable even though he thinks quite the contrary, that Hook isn't completely evil because he likes flowers, that fairies are boys and girls and "little sillies who are not sure what they are", that both Tinker Bell and Wendy are in love with Peter Pan (and maybe Tiger Lilly, too), but he simply does not understand what type of love that is, like a mother's? And that Peter Pan breaks Wendy's heart when he refuses to stay and grow up, that even though Peter Pan is forgetful and a year later when he sees Wendy again he doesn't know who Captain Hook or Tinker Bell are, he hasn't forgotten Wendy, that Wendy grows old and gets married and has daughter, and he still hasn't forgotten her, but doesn't realise how much time has gone by and that Wendy has grown up. That he meets her daughter and teaches her how to fly. The ending, the ending was sad and happy and sad... and the perfect closure.
I loved the beginning and I loved the end, and the middle in between was great too.
And it feels like an awfully modern book for its time.
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