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Tiger Lily by Jodi Lynn Anderson
4.0

I was pleasantly surprised at how much I ended up liking this book. I enjoy fairy tale and literary re-tellings, but I wasn't sure what to expect from this. I'd read Midnight at the Electric by this author earlier this year and loved it, but this one was so different.

I really enjoyed this take on Peter Pan focusing on Tiger Lily. I love that Tinkerbell is the narrator.

There are some intense things going on in this book. Trigger warnings for sexual assault, transphobia, and suicide.

The writing of this book felt more like a magical realism story than a straight-up fantasy. It was like a fairy tale, no pun intended. The writing was lyrical and whimsical, two of my favorite things.

All in all I really enjoyed this and can't wait to read more from this author in the future.