Hooked - A. C. Wise
INFORMATIONS ABOUT THE BOOK
Title: Hooked | Author: A. C. Wise | Genre: Fantasy, Retelling | Publisher: Titan Books | Release Date: 12.07.22 | Length: 352 pages | Language: English | ISBN: 978-1-789096835 | Price: 12,50 € (Paperback)
SYNOPSIS
Once invited, always welcome
Once invited, never free
Captain James Hook, the immortal pirate of Neverland , has died a thousand times. Drowned, stabbed by Peter Pans sword, eaten by the beast swimming below the depths, yet James was resurrected every time by one boys dark imagination. Until he found a door in the sky, an escape. And he took the chance no matter the cost.
Now in London twenty-two years later, Peter Pans monster has found Captain Hook again, intent on revenge. But a chance encounter Leads James to another survivor of Neverland. Wendy Darling, now a grown woman, is the only one who knows how dark a shadow Neverland casts, no matter how far you run. To vanquish Pans monster once and for all, Hook must play the villain one last time…
REVIEW
Who knows me also knows that I love everything related to Peter Pan, therefore I had to read this book.
and I was not disappointed.
This Story is so unique and such a refreshing and new take on the story of Peter, Wendy and Hook - taking place 22 years after the feared pirate Captain Hook left Neverland behind.
He now lives in London, no longer the fierce pirate captain, but a broken old man with an opiate addiction.
The story not only follows the path of Captain Hook, but also Wendy Darlings daughter Jane. (Hooked is in a way a sequel to A. C. Wises Book “Wendy, Darling„, however you do not have to read this one to understand Hooked).
Jane is young woman, studying medicine in a world dominated by men. 8 years after she was stolen by Peter Pan, brought to Neverland and rescued by her mother, some shadows still remain. The relationship with her mother is extremely strained and she blames her mom for everything that happened.
I loved the display of good and bad characters. Hook is the bad captain we all know, the captain who hates Peter Pan and all of his lost boys. However he is also a broken man. A man that was broken and died by Peters hands a thousand times again and again. The immortal captain doomed to battle Peter als loose every time. He did terrible things and is in a way definitely a monster. But the world isn’t just black and white. Abuse and violence are a cycle. The love story between him and Samuel was heartwarming and heartbreaking at the same time and as the reader you can really see how Hook tries and struggles to just be better and find himself.
Peter himself does not appear in this story but you can still see his incredible and cruel impact on Neverland and the people he forced into his world. He used them for his entertainment and trapped them in their made up roles. Without Peter his Lost Boys were even more lost, caught between the different parts of their lives, unable to leave Neverland behind.
The Story itself started out rather slow but not in a bad way. It was an emotional story, building up the path and then peaking in the last third, when Jane and Hook enter Neverland again. I enjoyed it a lot and hope there will be more of A. C. Wise in the Peter Pan universe.
MY OPINION: 4,5⭐️
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