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- Book Name: Lost in the Never Woods
- Authors: Aiden Thomas
- Pages: 363
- Genre: Fantasy Fiction, Mystery
- Publish Date: 18 January 2021
- Language: English
Book Review:
Lost in the Never Woods by Aiden Thomas so i was so so looking forward to seeing the next book that they wrote even though it is a peter pan retelling and i feel like peter pan retellings i haven't read a bunch of them but i just know there's so many that sometimes
it's hard like there's definitely good ones and there's definitely ways to make it feel different but i was just kind of worried that like i was like oh no this is just going to be another peter pan retelling that falls flat but happy to report that it was really really good
i originally thought it was a middle grade book for some reason i think just because it came out so quickly after cemetery boys i feel like usually there's like a year gap between like books coming out by an author
so i thought like oh like this is a middle grade one that's why but for some reason it just came out super soon like cemetery boys came out september this one's march so that's what like six months yeah six months but i was delighted because i really really liked it i know
a lot of people have been having issues with it and i i do see where that's coming from because i think the pacing is not super fast in this book but i think i loved that aspect like that's what made it work so much for me because i feel like this book truly is
it's a peter pan retelling but it's not a peter pan retelling there's never a lot about neverland or really like a journey or anything and i think that's maybe where people are kind of confused because i feel like just from hearing like peter pan retelling and hearing that the title is lost in the netherwoods like
you automatically think oh this is going to be a journey book where like they start off and then like immediately are in the woods or something like that and no it really takes place all in the same area like she does live by the woods wendy and peter comes and like literally gets hit by her car and is found like just unconscious
she has no memories of ever meeting him before but he obviously knows her it's very like i think it was like about like 150 pages before they even like had kind of a semblance of like who the bad guy what or like a plan or anything like that but i also like the exploration because that's what
i mean about it's more than just a peter pan retelling it's symbolically a story about grief and about closure and about how grief can weigh you down and guilt can weigh you down and i think that's why i liked the pace of it because those are very depressing emotions and they make
you feel slow and they make you feel sluggish so it felt right that it was kind of like going in circles you know almost like trying to figure out what's happening like it's not an easy guess because that's what grief and depression and guilt feel like you know like you feel weighed down
by it and i think that's why it works so much for me because like i could feel the emotions that wendy was feeling in how this book was presented and i think it's just it's so so good so the premise is that wendy and her two brothers they went missing five years ago she came back with
no memories of what happened and her brothers were never found and are just presumed to be missing what happens at the start of the book is that kids again are starting to go missing in the town and it's reminiscent of what happened with her and her brother of just like them disappearing all of a sudden no one being able to find them or get any trace of them
it brings up like a whole bunch of memories obviously because now everyone's remembering what happened to her and everyone's kind of connecting it to her since she also went missing as a kid peter pan shows up out of the blue remembering who wendy is and his adventures with her
but wendy doesn't remember obviously because she doesn't remember anything that happened in those five years the thing that i thought was interesting too was peter pan was like a character in this book like the story of peter pan but it seemed like only her mom knew who peter pan was like it wasn't like a like globally known story like it was just like stories her
mom had told her and then she continued the tradition of telling stories to her brother and the kids that she volunteered with at the hospital so i thought that was kind of interesting because i feel like it made it more realistic for why people would not believe her when she was like
hey this is peter pan because it's not like he's like universally known it's like this story that she's known for telling so like if someone all of a sudden is like by the way i'm seeing peter pan everywhere you're gonna be like are you honey like i would believe it i've said this before 100 like down to clown if you are stuck in a time loop you're a time traveler you met peter pan like
i will believe you in a heartbeat because it's so much easier than just resisting it like you always see the people that are like that can't be true and then they get to the moment where they're like you weren't telling the truth i'm like we could have saved ourselves so much trouble if
you just believed it but it does make more sense that you know she's going through a lot of grief and it's bringing up a lot of emotions about what happened to her and why people might look at it as just like she's kind of latching on to something that's not real so i did like that that's why she kind of had to keep peter a secret because no one would really believe
her and she says that a lot of times she's like everyone just think i am like losing my grip on reality i also loved the idea of peter i think he was very well fleshed out and like given a lot of qualities that i think were interesting because like obviously he is not like the peter pan that we know
he's fighting something he's lost his shadow and he's trying to find a shadow and that's affecting him and it's interesting that like he's not like the happy-go-lucky peter pan we all know like he is but there's also added dimensions to him which i think are really good and i like the chemistry between
him and wendy i think is really really great even though you know it's always sad because i feel like peter pan and wendy like they're like the couple that cannot be right like they can never end up together because he has so
go back to neverland and she has to grow up and it's just like the saddest thing ever in any peter pan retelling and peter pan in general that like you know you can't be with someone you love because of obligations and duties and i think they do a good job of explaining that of like you know i
t feels right and it feels like he's helped her and they help each other and it's just really really nice but the main thing i have to say yeah is just the exploration of the grief and the guilt that wendy has about her brothers because she feels like if it weren't for her her brothers never would have been
out in the woods they never would have got lost she also feels a lot of guilt for not being able to remember what happened because that is not giving her family closure and there's this amazing amazing line
where she talks about all she lost and the way that i really like it is the exploration of it in that it's not just losing her brothers because obviously they're gone they're missing she hasn't seen them for five years she hasn't got to see them grow up she talks about how she's lost her
mom and her dad and who they were because her mom is just grief she doesn't cook anymore she's not really happy like she's all just work her mom's just like not the warm presents that she was you know she says like i lost like my mom's comforting touch i lost her braiding my hair like
all those kind of happy moments that you take for granted she lost those and then her dad also became a lot angrier and a lot gruffer and she's like i lost my dad who would chase me around and laugh and you know have fun with me and i think that's something you don't always see portrayed
it's just not only that you lose the people who are gone but you lose the people that are still here and that the versions of them change i think anyone who has suffered from a loss and has had that kind of guilt and that grief can really connect to it because it shows how it expands and
it touches every part of your life it's not just something that affects you know one thing it's not something that you just suffer for a little bit like it your life is irrevocably changed in so many different ways and i think that was so well done and just i have to give aiden thomas so many props for that
because the way that they portrayed her grief and her guilt was amazing and her guilt over you know i should have done more i'm the oldest i was supposed to be in charge like i shouldn't have left them gone missing and then also adding them to that like i should be able to remember
what's happening and putting so much pressure on herself to make her parents you know happy and stuff because it's like you're suffering from your own guilt and grief but then you also are guilty because of your parents are sad and not it was just so so well done and i when i tell you i sobbed like a baby
so obviously i'm not gonna spoil it but when it does come out about like what exactly happened how they went missing i stopped okay like it took me so long to finish the book just because i kept having to put it down because i was crying so hard that i couldn't see the page so i'd like put it down pick
it back up after i thought i felt better and then immediately like after a page would be sobbing again it was just it was so sad it was kind of like not shock value but just you're like oh my gosh i can't believe that happened like kind of felt like just like what but then putting the pieces
together from that of being like oh this is what happened is heartbreaking and to see the family react to it and to see wendy where oh it's just it's full on like it breaks your heart and i stopped i mean i i cannot tell you enough how like this book just touched me and like really like the emotions that she was feeling and that she expressed and the guilt and everything
i think was something i could connect to so well and was so so well done that i could not praise it enough and that is why i love this book so much because again the pacing is it's not like a super action-packed journey or whatever you know blah blah but that's not what this is as a retelling
it's about like the heart and the emotion behind these people and the suffering that they've been dealing with and that includes wendy that includes peter pan that includes her parents like that includes everyone pretty much that she comes into contact with and it's it's just so beautiful guys
so i gave this book four and a half out of five stars definitely one of my favorite i mean i don't even remember another peter pan retelling that i've read but i know there's like a bunch of different ones and i just think this one is so different from even annie just take out the peter pan aspect of it anyway book with the way it deals with grief and guilt
you know all that kind of stuff and pain for what you think is something that was your fault and stuff like that and how it deals with fear and how that can hold you back and stuff like that and it's just it's so amazing.
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