Reviews

Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook by Christina Henry

tifftastic87's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

Peter told the boys they would play games and have adventures, they would never grow up and they would be boys with him forever. Peter lies. Jamie has been on Peter's island for longer than he cares to think about, and through all those years he's been looking out for the other boys and burying them when he wasn't able to. But when Peter went too far, bringing back a boy too young, Jamie started to really look at Peter and didn't like what he found there. 

This was the pick me up I needed after some let downs this month. I am probably a little biased as I love the story of Peter Pan and Captain Hook, and especially the ideas of Peter being not what he seems. This was a Hook origin story and I really liked what Henry did with the lore and characters. As an oldest sibling, Jamie was so relatable. I felt for him even when the characters he was attached to weren't well developed, he was and his emotions were so it picked up the slack a bit. There was a lot this could have done better, the ending was a little rough and some of the characters were a little flat but overall it was really good. Hands down I would read a sequel. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, Child death, Gun violence, and Blood

Moderate: Child abuse

Minor: Misogyny

grace_loves_lizards's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

4.75

sabinevd's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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? It's complicated

4.5

another_universe's review against another edition

5.0

This is sick

sandra94's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

trin's review against another edition

2.0

Frustrating. Jamie's exhaustion and deep sadness and his love for Peter that, especially in the early chapters, you can feel being twisted and stripped away, are all really good. And there's some nice creepy atmosphere. But too much time is wasted wandering around the island, with interchangeable boys getting into fights, etc. Also, I feel that eventually Henry crosses a line and makes Peter too evil -- only evil -- and that's much less interesting than if, you know, the situation were a lot more nuanced than that.

This book suffers from prequelitis in that what I really wanted was for Jamie's backstory to be the before, and for the narrative to then actually develop beyond the set of circumstances that we all know. Instead it just, um, cuts off before Peter Pan, because of course it does; these books always do. I guess I wanted to be reading actual fanfic fine okay yes.

sarbus's review against another edition

5.0

Reread. Excellent every time. The world sucks you in and doesnt let go until you’re done

mighty_dumpling's review against another edition

1.0

So viel Tell but not show, dass ich das Buch gelangweilt zur Seite gelegt habe, um die letzten zehn Minuten der Bahnfahrt lieber aus dem Fenster zu schauen.

Es dauert mehr als zwanzig Seiten, um eine Szene zu beenden. Füllwörter, „sagte, „antwortete“, zu wortreiche Beschreibungen und zu wenig Handlung. Ein Jammer. Ich hatte mich sehr auf das Buch gefreut.

xytina97's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

marticlar's review against another edition

3.0

Occasionally repetative, but is a good twist on a childhood favourite