5 stars!
‘Lost
Girl’ is a well-written page-turner and brilliant re-imagining of the Peter Pan
tale we all know and love. All the
classic elements are present, each with a new spin.
For
the first seven chapters, readers follow Wendy as a child, locked in the
Neverland Institution on an island, fearful of the Red Skulls who force the
doctors to run further experiments on the children. Wendy is slow to make friends in her
captivity, but the one she calls Boy, with green eyes and auburn hair, she
knows she can trust.
Seven
years later, Wendy has been adopted by George and Mary, has become an older
sister to their son John, and has made a life for herself in high school. All this despite the nightmares and shadows
that seem to haunt her. When the
shape-shifting shadows attack in public, and Wendy can no longer fight what she
sees and pretend that she is normal, she runs away from home to avoid being
institutionalized again. Instead, she
falls in with Peter, Tink, and the Lost Boys at their Neverwood Academy
hideout, in an awkward dance of secrets versus trust.
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