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A review by mackle13
Captain James Hook and the Siege of Neverland by Jeremiah Kleckner, Jeremy Marshall
3.0
3.5
I had said at the end of my review for the previous book that I believed that that book took us up to the events in the original book, and that this book would cover those events. I think I was mistaken, because I don't recall the Green Knight and Morgan la Fey playing roles in Peter Pan...
Then again, I also mentioned that I'd never actually read the book, and am basing this just on the various movie versions and book retellings which have never touched on those characters, though I suppose it's possible.
But I don't think so, because this book mentions Hook's goal in becoming "the main villain" for Pan, who seems to have a bit of a choice in this novel.
Anyway - that aside, overall I liked the story, though not quite as much as the first. This one seemed to drag and retread ground a little bit in places.
It was still pretty quickly placed and definitely swash-buckly in places.
I'm hoping for a third in the series - one which actually does cover the events of the original story, because I'd really like to see the story concluded from the angle of Hook as the savior of the Lost Boys kind of thing.
I had said at the end of my review for the previous book that I believed that that book took us up to the events in the original book, and that this book would cover those events. I think I was mistaken, because I don't recall the Green Knight and Morgan la Fey playing roles in Peter Pan...
Then again, I also mentioned that I'd never actually read the book, and am basing this just on the various movie versions and book retellings which have never touched on those characters, though I suppose it's possible.
But I don't think so, because this book mentions Hook's goal in becoming "the main villain" for Pan, who seems to have a bit of a choice in this novel.
Anyway - that aside, overall I liked the story, though not quite as much as the first. This one seemed to drag and retread ground a little bit in places.
It was still pretty quickly placed and definitely swash-buckly in places.
I'm hoping for a third in the series - one which actually does cover the events of the original story, because I'd really like to see the story concluded from the angle of Hook as the savior of the Lost Boys kind of thing.