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| Original Title: | Stars |
| ISBN: | 1940716950 (ISBN13: 9781940716954) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Wendy Darling #1 |
Colleen Oakes
Paperback | Pages: 317 pages Rating: 3.78 | 1613 Users | 368 Reviews
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Wendy Darling has a perfectly agreeable life with her parents and brothers in wealthy London, as well as a budding romance with Booth, the neighborhood bookseller’s son. But while their parents are at a ball, the charmingly beautiful Peter Pan comes to the Darling children’s nursery and—dazzled by this flying boy with god-like powers—they follow him out of the window and straight on to morning, to Neverland, an intoxicating island of feral freedom.As time passes in Neverland, Wendy realizes that this Lost Boys’ paradise of turquoise seas, mermaids, and pirates holds terrible secrets rooted in blood and greed. As Peter’s grasp on her heart tightens, she struggles to remember where she came from—and begins to suspect that this island of dreams, and the boy who desires her, have the potential to transform into an everlasting nightmare.
List Appertaining To Books Stars (Wendy Darling #1)
| Title | : | Stars (Wendy Darling #1) |
| Author | : | Colleen Oakes |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 317 pages |
| Published | : | October 13th 2015 by SparkPress |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Retellings. Young Adult |
Rating Appertaining To Books Stars (Wendy Darling #1)
Ratings: 3.78 From 1613 Users | 368 ReviewsCriticize Appertaining To Books Stars (Wendy Darling #1)
The first thing you have to realize about "Wendy Darling: Stars" is that this novel/upcoming series is to the original Peter Pan what the film Mirror, Mirror is to Snow White. It's a good story and it contains names, clever callbacks, and elements from the original but does not in any way, shape, or form follow the original plot beyond the narrowest sense (I.E. London-based children fly away with a magical boy to a place called Neverland). The story begins with Wendy Darling who appears to have(Source: I received a digital copy of this book for free on a read-to-review basis. Thanks to SparkPress (a BookSparks imprint) and NetGalley.) "Life is for the living, Wendy. And I plan on living a very, very long time." This book wasnt awful, but it didnt hold my attention well at all.Wendy was an okay character, and she came across how I would expect Wendy to come across, there wasnt anything extra there though, and I didnt really care very much for her.The storyline in this didnt really
www.melissa413readsalot.blogspot.comI never really liked Peter Pan, but this story is told through Wendy Darling's point of view and I like that, it makes the book different. I liked the love she had for Booth and I would have liked to see how that played out, maybe in later books. I still don't like Peter, I just can't help it. He is so nice to Wendy at first of course, but then he turns mean when she can't really love him. I also love Tink, that is a given. This book has love in it, some
This review (and others) can be seen in all its properly formatted glory on my blog Beauty and the Bookshelf.4.5 stars (to the right)!I have a hard time resisting Peter Pan retellings. (And yet, I still haven't read the original story. Dishonor on my cow.) When I saw Wendy Darling: Stars on Goodreads one day, I immediately went into a tizzy because the title obviously meant the story had something to do with Peter Pan, and how did I not already know about it? It very quickly became a book I
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(I received a copy from Netgalley, In exchange for an honest review.)Actual rating - 2.5Wendy was an okay character, but I didn't love her.This wasn't a bad read, but it couldn't hold my interest very well unfortunately. I felt bored quite a few times, and it started to drag for me. I think I would have preferred to just watch the movie again. Overall, Not awful, but I won't be reading book two.
Most people probably know the Peter Pan story whether or not they have read the book. He is such a famous figure and there are a couple of movies out there. I read the book in my teens so my memory of the book is, well not that good, but I have seen movies so I think I know the story quite well.I must admit that the cover was one of the reasons for that made me request the book that and it seemed to be a much darker story. I was a bit wary about it being YA since I really don't like reading YA
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