As soon as I saw that Peter Darling followed a transgender Peter Pan, 10 years after the story we all know, with a possible Pan/Hook romance, I was sold.
And oh my goodness ... it went beyond expectations.
Austin Chant's stories ae whimisical.

I must say, at first I was a little confused as to who did what in this version of the story "ten years ago" but I realised that we're supposed to be confused. You find out as you go along, who Peter is and what he has been going through, trying to escape, trying to find. And it's so important.

Peter is a transgender boy who only feels happy and accepted in Neverland. His whole journey was beautiful and sad and brilliant to read about.
As expected from an #ownvoices book, it felt so real and raw and I loved it, recommend it, want to talk about it to everyone. Ugh.
Can you tell I really loved this?
I really loved this.

I'm not even that fond of the original story, but everything I hated about that version was non existent in this one, and got replaced with amazing stuff.

The romance, I hear you ask? Well I wasn't sure at first. It was maybe a little swift. But for such a short book, it still managed to be developed enough for me to actually care a lot about them.

So that's kind of the idea isn't it? IT WASN'T LONG ENOUGH. I need moooore.
(The length was actually pretty well suited to the story but I just loved it so much I need more).

One of my faves of 2017