A review by jenbsbooks
Second Star by Alyssa Sheinmel

3.0

This is being billed as a "Peter Pan" retelling. And it is. It was interesting to hear the familiar names woven in. I did wonder that John and Michael were twins. There was no real reason they couldn't have been a couple years apart, more true to the traditional (and by "traditional" a do mean the Disney movie and/or the play. I have not read the original.)

But even more than this being a Peter Pan tale, this was a SURFING story. Surfing, surfing and more surfing. I'm not into surfing, so this was a little too much surfing for me. Just something so central to the story, so many descriptions ... something I'm not really interested in.

But overall ... the flow of the story and the Peter Pan elements were interesting and enjoyable. I liked it ok, but I felt like I was pushing myself to finish, it just wasn't really holding my attention, making me want to turn the next page to find out what would happen ... I just wanted to finish.

Thanks to Netgalley for providing the book for review.