3.5 stars! The first third pleasantly surprised me with its quality(I’d heard this was the most “meh” of Aiden’s catalogue and went into this with my expectations fairly low), I loved the intrigue and the genuine mystery. But then, not much was added onto the plot after that, which made it a narratively weaker story than Aiden’s other two works, and the ending twists were strange? I think most of the plot holes were smoothed out but I got some questions about Neverland and how all of that business works. 

The romance, in concept, is kinda weird! I didn’t like it, and although I got that the same sense of tenderness present in Aiden’s other romances was MEANT to be captured here too, I just wasn’t feeling it as much. (Which was a bummer, because even with TST, I had my fair share of critiques about it but enjoyed that aspect of it a lot?? And, y’know, romance was something so beautiful and integral to his debut, “Cemetery Boys”! Yadriel and Julian are one of like…four book romances that make me yearn for the feeling of falling for someone lol.) (Anyhow, Aiden Thomas, please do not try to write another straight romance lmfao.)

The spooky atmosphere was very well-written, though. Even if it only got a few parts to really shine and be written in detail, it one of the best aspects of the story, in my opinion! 

This concludes my endeavors of reading every book Aiden Thomas has written so far. Yay.