It was missing a certain edge a tone, if you will. There’s also an online friend of Wendy’s named Eleanor that she’s never met IRL.ĭarling never got passed the surface level. There’s Detective Hook, who’s after Peter and his friends, and “the Crocodile”, who isn’t really a large amphibian but a large bouncer. During this night out, she meets Tinkerbell and a lot of boys that live or hang out with Peter (aka the Lost Boys, too many to name). But getting to the party seems more trivial than she thought. Instead of freaking out and calling the cops, she decides to take the boy up on his offer of a night out to a party. Her parents go out one night and Wendy is visited by a boy (Peter Pan) who is there to rob her house (?).

The book starts off with us meeting the Darlings: a husband, wife and teenage daughter named Wendy who move back to the city side of Chicago after many years. What drew me to Darling was the premise, I was really sold on a retelling (in general, I love retellings) of Peter Pan. But I hate doing that (don’t ask me why) so I trudged on. So unfortunately I did not enjoy Darling…in fact, several times, I had to debate whether or not to DNF the book. Can Wendy find the courage to survive this night-and make sure everyone else does, too? (from Goodreads) And she makes enemies-the terrifying Detective Hook, and maybe Peter himself, as his sinister secrets start coming to light. She makes friends-a punk girl named Tinkerbelle and the lost boys Peter watches over.

Wendy thinks they’re heading to a party, but instead they’re soon running in the city’s underground. He’s dizzying, captivating, beautiful-so she agrees to join him for a night on the town. On Wendy Darling’s first night in Chicago, a boy called Peter appears at her window.

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