Lost in the Never Woods

ok yeah... a little disappointed (and i don't mean to compare, but since darling was another 2021 YA peter pan release, my expectations were sky high)

this book felt about 100 pages too long with parts of the story that felt like extraneous information that could have been connected to the main mystery but weren't. while i liked the twist, i had predicted it and wasn't too thrilled by it, especially since it left me wondering, “ok, what was the point of this, this and that?”. i guess i'm a gal who likes purpose to every itty bitty detail from every conversation in a book with such a big mystery, and while there were some elements of that, i feel like there were moments when i just kept thinking, “what's the point?” only to learn that there was absolutely no point.

all that being said, i still think this was a book with great writing, an okay plot and believable characters. i think aiden thomas writes teens well as they never feel like the “how do you do fellow kids?” meme and face struggles actual teens face. but in terms of a dark peter pan remix, this fell short of expectations