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A review by kiaramedina
Tiger Lily by Jodi Lynn Anderson
5.0
Posted on Oh, Read it in a Day Reviews
Originally, I bought this book because it was $1.99 on kindle, and come on, how can you say no to a $2 book? There was a lot of buzz surrounding the book. Everyone who read it instantly loved it, so I knew I had to read it soon. (Thank goodness for 9 hour flights, right?)
Tiger Lily is a story about a girl who falls for a boy and doesn’t know how to say it. It’s about first love and loud love and quiet love. It’s about how we can sometimes love in different ways, in different places, from different stages.
It’s ultimately a story about growing up.
Tinkerbell narrates the story. We see the world through her tiny pixie eyes and emotions. Tink is NOT an unbiased narrator, but really, would you expect otherwise? She is nosey and intrusive and she doesn’t watch things evolve, she intrudes. She follows Tiger Lily as she meets Peter, a boy she knows she isn’t supposed to meet, because he is dangerous and wild, as are his Lost Boys, but of course, she just can’t help herself. Neither can Tink. Everyone loves Peter.
I love the story of Peter Pan. I love the idea of Never-Neverland and never growing up. Of playing and going on adventures and defeating pirates. Peter makes it seem so easy. You can be a kid forever. You don’t have to grow up.
But it’s not as simple as that. It never is.
Life doesn’t stop for anyone, not even in Neverland. Not even for Tiger Lily, who is betrothed and running out of time, and falling hopelessly in love with Peter.
Life stops for no one. And life is seldom kind.
Tiger Lily finds out, the hard way.
My heart aches as I think about this book. When I finished it, I couldn’t read anything else (terrible when you’re on a plane for 5 more hours). The story is so beautiful and so hauntingly heartbreaking.
Peter Pan fans will appreciate this magnificent book. What happens when you put Peter in a Neverland where growing up is inevitable? This book is the answer.
Originally, I bought this book because it was $1.99 on kindle, and come on, how can you say no to a $2 book? There was a lot of buzz surrounding the book. Everyone who read it instantly loved it, so I knew I had to read it soon. (Thank goodness for 9 hour flights, right?)
Tiger Lily is a story about a girl who falls for a boy and doesn’t know how to say it. It’s about first love and loud love and quiet love. It’s about how we can sometimes love in different ways, in different places, from different stages.
It’s ultimately a story about growing up.
Tinkerbell narrates the story. We see the world through her tiny pixie eyes and emotions. Tink is NOT an unbiased narrator, but really, would you expect otherwise? She is nosey and intrusive and she doesn’t watch things evolve, she intrudes. She follows Tiger Lily as she meets Peter, a boy she knows she isn’t supposed to meet, because he is dangerous and wild, as are his Lost Boys, but of course, she just can’t help herself. Neither can Tink. Everyone loves Peter.
I love the story of Peter Pan. I love the idea of Never-Neverland and never growing up. Of playing and going on adventures and defeating pirates. Peter makes it seem so easy. You can be a kid forever. You don’t have to grow up.
But it’s not as simple as that. It never is.
Life doesn’t stop for anyone, not even in Neverland. Not even for Tiger Lily, who is betrothed and running out of time, and falling hopelessly in love with Peter.
Life stops for no one. And life is seldom kind.
Tiger Lily finds out, the hard way.
My heart aches as I think about this book. When I finished it, I couldn’t read anything else (terrible when you’re on a plane for 5 more hours). The story is so beautiful and so hauntingly heartbreaking.
Peter Pan fans will appreciate this magnificent book. What happens when you put Peter in a Neverland where growing up is inevitable? This book is the answer.