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Peter Darling by Austin Chant

36 reviews

c_alexander's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Deadnaming, Dysphoria, and Abandonment

Moderate: Death, Homophobia, Transphobia, Violence, and Sexual content

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

yourbookishbff's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.5

I really enjoyed this, though it made me realize just how little I remember of the original Peter Pan! This inspired me to go back and read it so I can fully appreciate what Chant has done here. I loved the character growth for both Peter and Hook and the slow drip of reveals. This is a fever dream of a story that explores gender dysphoria, transphobia, identity and belonging, growing up, grief, and adulthood. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Deadnaming, and Violence

Moderate: Death and Sexual content

Transphobia and deadnaming occurs in Peter's flashbacks to life outside of Neverland.

rhi_'s review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring sad 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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Transphobia, Blood, Death, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Sexual content, War, and Homophobia

athenian_frog's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

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

4.5

Holy SHIT! Oh my God?? Why did this short book take me out????? I am genuinely FLOORED by how much I enjoyed this, considering I wasn't so convinced in the first two chapters. Some parts made my eyes water while reading this in the dining hall, SHEESH.

The story touches on several different ideas like:
-having to take on prejudice as you grow older
-what it's like to risk leaving behind a safe place/community
-the struggles of having a family who doesn't understand you/accept your identity (mainly a queer identity in this book's case)
-OH and having to face the world's difficulties when the person/people you once shouldered these difficulties with is gone. Like how just bc you've lost them doesn't mean you have to close yourself off entirely. There will be people who can come to understand you and support you.

There's also a little bit about how LGBTQIA+ people have been made to feel unsafe in the "real" world, with lines like:

"He was a dream. Someone to warm my bed where[in Neverland] it was safe to imagine such things."

The romance was also more gradual than I had anticipated, in a good way. There's some initial attraction but its kind of set aside in the MC's head until he decides to unpack it, and understand what he's feeling. They ended up being a very mutually supportive duo. 

The side characters were good, personally my favorites were Earnest and Tinker Bell. I think the captain's crew could have had a lil more substance to them but I kind of understand why they weren't bc of reasons the narrative explains.  

Last point: the internal AND external voices all gender Peter correctly, aside from his original family. Even when not in Neverland, very few gendered remarks are made about AFAB body qualities. I thought this was a cool decision. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Transphobia, Deadnaming, Dysphoria, and Death

Minor: Misogyny, Sexual content, and Violence

A trans male character is consistently deadnamed by their family, but we don't see their family anyways too often. The internal gendering is still consistent w/ masculine conventions. A child is killed via stab through the sword. The description is brief. A few men are killed in sword fights and a monster attack. Sexual content is vague but still there. If you've read The Song of Achilles it's that kind of vague but even less specific LOL. There is some discussion of what men and women are "supposed" to do. Some of it is masculinity ideas that the MC employs to reinforce his own sense of manhood. These are protested/corrected by the surrounding characters. Some mentions of feelings of dysphoria by the MC. I would say most of it comes down to accepting your body as masculine because YOU ARE a guy. There's not really much feminine gendering of the MC's AFAB body, though. There is some blood and injury. A character gets poisoned. Another character has an infected stab wound.

rock_gnome's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Blood, Deadnaming, Violence, Death, Gore, and War

Moderate: Sexual content

greenrequiem's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring 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? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia and Deadnaming

Moderate: Death, Violence, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Child abuse, Sexism, Child death, Grief, and Homophobia

Minor: Misogyny, War, and Confinement

trizk's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny sad tense medium-paced

• 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? It's complicated

2.5

Don't let the rating fool you🫵🏾 I thoroughly enjoyed this and needed the trans rep badlyyyy (in which the rep was good asf). The rating is only low because of the problematic dynamics between

Hook and Peter

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deadnaming, Dysphoria, Transphobia, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Pedophilia and Sexual content

morgiei's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful reflective sad 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? N/A

5.0

I wish I could stretch every paragraph in Peter Darling into a whole chapter so I can live inside its pages for that much longer. A fantastic read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Transphobia, and Deadnaming

Moderate: Sexual content and Violence

Minor: Child abuse, Confinement, War, Suicidal thoughts, and Forced institutionalization

cryptidstar's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Transphobia, Deadnaming, Dysphoria, Emotional abuse, and Sexual content

sproutedpages's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria, Deadnaming, and Transphobia

Moderate: Murder, Sexual content, and Blood

Minor: Religious bigotry