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Captain Pan (Neverland Fae #2) by Rebecca F. Kenney
Fantasy, Romance, Retellings, Peter Pan, Adult, Fae, Fairytales, Pirates, Monsters, Spicy Romance, Contemporary, Folklore, Fairies
Wendy has been kidnapped and taken to Hook, which escalates tensions between Hook and Peter. As Wendy plans her own escape, Peter tries to figure out where she's being held and how he can rescue her without losing his friends, his allies, and Neverland itself.
(Trigger warning: violence, nonconsensual touch/kissing, threat of rape)
Review:
This book is the conclusion to the book Wendy, Darling and it picks up where the last book has left off. Wendy has been kidnapped and taken to Commodore Hook and placed into his hands. He plans to use her once again against Pan and maybe even keep her once he has rid himself of the pesky fae. But Hook is attracted to Wendy and often finds a way to gain a kiss, a touch, or have her naked before him. What he is not aware of is that Pan is not going to let the former Captain keep his beloved Wendy. Everything is at stake including Neverland, and the clock is ticking to find where Hook has hidden his beloved.
I have never been one to pick up the sequel once I read the first book. I tend to pick up other books before I come back to the sequel but this one really caught my attention and I wanted to see the direction it took. I loved how we are able to see glimpses of other worlds. And let's not start with this Alice - she was freakin' creepy and I mean really creepy. The Hook and Wendy dynamic was quite yum that there were parts where I was actually wishing this book was not geared toward the Wendy/Pan pairing. I always did enjoy the whole villain gets the girl. Those types of stories are the best. But I was happy with glimpses of what might have been here and there.
The only grip I had against this book was the Pan-Hook finally meeting was just anticlimactic. It just made the build-up to the story feel like the author was trying to hurry through the ending to get rid now of the smex. Don't get me wrong we were long overdue for the reunion of Wendy and Pan, but I felt it took away from everything. There was a missed opportunity to make the whole Pan-Hook showdown worth waiting for and just to have it dropped in a way made me feel like maybe I should have skipped this book for another day. This was just a disappointment to me.
I will say I enjoyed this series and I am definitely going to pick up the other books that are off-branches to the story because it's Greek/Roman mythology and if you want to reel me into it, then you just have to wave that sort of thing in my face. LOL.
Rating:
4.5/5
