This is the best kind of fairytale retelling - the kind that takes everything you thought you knew and turns it on its head. Everyone you know and love (or loathe) is accounted for, but that is where the familiarity ends.
In 1700s London orphan Wendy Darling is frustrated by the lack of opportunity for women outside of domestication. At sixteen the chance she has been waiting for finally arises and she enlists to defend England against the greatest threat of all, Magic. Along with her brothers in arms John and Michael, and her faithful companion dog Nana, she is tasked with being a lookout for the Everlost, who come to England to steal sheep and children in order to drink their blood.
When the Everlost show up at their post at the Cliffs of Dover Wendy finds herself engaged in a battle of wits and words with the leader of the group, a striking winged man who introduces himself as Peter Pan. When Peter and his boys leave Wendy immediately files a report that is taken to the head of the Royal Navy himself, Captain James Hook, who is determined to find where the Everlost come from and destroy them all in the name of God, Glory and Government.
This book is so original and unique and is probably among my top five I have read all year. I cannot wait to get my hands on the second book. Thanks to Netgalley and the Publisher for providing me with a copy of this book to review. All opinions are my own.
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