Wendy Michaels is 21-years-old and beautiful which is why she makes a tantalising prize for James 'Hook' Barrie when he spots her in his club, and realises she's the perfect way to get revenge on his arch nemesis, crooked businessman Peter Michaels. But hurting Peter may also mean hurting Wendy and as James gets to know her better, that becomes harder to do.

This is a dark romance book so it has scenes that graphic in both violence, and sexual content, as well as allusions to child abuse. I do like the concept of this story and a villain/heroine storyline of Hook and Wendy was too much for me to resist as someone who is a huge fan of Peter Pan, and also enjoys seeing spin-offs and 'fan fiction' connected to the original story.

This isn't a badly written book and I think there were parts of it that were done well - I just found, for me, everything about the book was trying too hard. The sexual scenes and the violent scenes felt a bit gratuitous at times that felt forced for me, and I've read many an explicit and violent book before so this content doesn't bother me (and if it did, I wouldn't read this book) but everything about it felt like the book was screaming 'look at me, I'm so big and bold and sexy and violent.'

I liked the character of Hook but again, he felt a bit one-note at times, and some of the way he postured and responded to Wendy made me want to laugh as I just felt he was overdone. The whole story made me feel like I was reading fan fiction like back in the old days of Mibba but this isn't necessarily a bad thing either. I enjoyed those stories, I just can't take them seriously and this was the case with this book.

Wendy was pretty much a wet blanket, Mary-Sue kind of character with the only kink in her wires (literally) being that she liked to be choked. But the virginal, wide-eyed girl who had no idea her daddy was a criminal while living in her big mansion was eye-rolling at times. I actually think parts of this story would have been better if Peter was Wendy's brother rather her dad.

The whole storyline of Peter Pan and Hook felt slightly anti-climatic at times too. We didn't get a lot of scenes of Peter at all and we were very much just told about him rather than shown. I also don't know why the Tinkerbell character could have just been called Tink instead of Tina Belle which made me gag.