A review by jaelynx
Peter Darling by Austin Chant

emotional hopeful reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

Transmasc Peter Pan (Assigned Wendy At Birth) returns to Neverland much older, preferring the lost boys to an asylum for his failure to conform to feminine norms. Now he resumes a very bloody war with Captain Hook with all the bravado and arrogance of his youth. Yet as he realises how artificial the world is, how it bends to his whim, he starts to fall for the one other real thing in Neverland; James Hook.

I adore this book. It’s sweet, powerful and wonderfully in tone with the original while challenging its core tenets. Neverland is Peter’s escape from the reality of his unaccepting family, a life he wants to forget. Now he throws himself into his own fantasy, his own powerful storytelling which Neverland relents to. And then to see things from Hook’s side, his past and his feelings for Peter are an absolute treasure.