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paigehf's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
2.0
Graphic: Cultural appropriation, Misogyny, Colonisation, Xenophobia, Sexism, Racism, and Racial slurs
Moderate: Classism, Murder, Violence, and Death
Minor: Death of parent and Animal cruelty
mdwsn27's review against another edition
- Loveable characters? No
2.0
Moderate: Death, Violence, Sexism, Abandonment, Misogyny, Kidnapping, Colonisation, and Child abuse
tigerkind's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.75
And thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.
To read this merely as a children’s book does not do it justice. Even though born in 2000, I grew up watching the 1953 version on VHS over and over again and the discrepancy between the two versions feels like a perfect illustration for the point the story is making about growing up. Reading it back makes me want to both be young again as well as to apologize to my mother.
Graphic: Misogyny and Racial slurs
Moderate: Death of parent, Violence, Murder, and Death
Minor: Child death, War, and Confinement
mcmeiss's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Abandonment and Violence
Moderate: Animal cruelty
Minor: Death of parent, Death, and Animal death
cosmopsis's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
Minor: War, Classism, Fatphobia, Death, and Misogyny
chalkletters's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Minor: Death
another_dahlia's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Graphic: Stalking, Child abuse, Colonisation, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Racism, and Sexual content
One fae stalks several generations of a family, kidnapping their children from their beds at night and taking them to Neverland.i_write_on_occasion's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Graphic: Racism and Racial slurs
Moderate: Violence, Sexism, and Misogyny
Minor: Death, Child death, and Abandonment
mindins's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.0
Graphic: Sexism
Moderate: Death
christygsp's review against another edition
2.0
So right off the bat, this book was so much darker than any other iteration I have seen, and it was pretty disturbing. Peter is both completely oblivious, and manipulative and sadistic. He likes to see kids in pain or trouble, casually suggests and follows through with killing people, and kidnaps kids with no regard to their wishes.. I hate him.
There was a lot more focus on Mr and Mrs Darling than I would have thought, but it made it all the more heartbreaking when their kids essentially disappear. Although I will say, Wendy told her mum that a strange dude was watching them sleep and she did basically nothing about it, except interact directly with Peter and steal his shadow. I thought the whole point of PP was that kids basically dreamt or imagined someone like him, not that he was REAL and that parents actually saw him. Either that, or everyone in the Darling family is Schizophrenic.
Hearing a little bit about how Fairy magic and life works was interesting, but the rest of this book was un-savable for me.
Graphic: Kidnapping
Moderate: Death and Violence