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Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
4.0

i have always been fascinated by the story of peter pan and its adaptions (disney in the 50s and the sequel i had in vhs, the 2003 live action version, ouat) and i am pretty sure my mom read me the book as a child.
glad to have re-read it or i would have missed out on the fairy orgy, non binary fairies or something i had forgotten like the fact that peter pan kills the lost boys when they grow too old or that he brutally kills all of the pirates or that they in turn brutally kill a bunch of natives (whose treatment is definitely the most racist and controversial part of this story)
also peter pan is a fucking asshole and ouat making him a straight up villain was not that far off.
i still wanna live in a world with fairies, mermaids and pirates