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![]() The only thing that caught me off guard and I have mixed emotions about is that near the end of the book (I’m guessing around 65-70% into the book), the author suddenly started to address the readers directly in the descriptions and storytelling, where she hadn’t in the first half of the book. ![]() I did really like the prolonged intro into Wendy’s home-life though, I feel like a lot of adaptations want to skip right to when she flies away to Neverland without quite revealing why she wants to go so badly. I do wish that Peter had been a tad bit more present in this book though, as it is now, it’s primarily a story of Wendy and Tinkerbell–which is charming, but just a little bit disappointing. Many scenes are kept incredibly similar to the original, but there are also plenty of new ones to keep it fresh. The writing is whimsical, the characters were all familiar, and the story is just as adventurous as we would expect. Straight on Till Morning feels like the original Peter Pan. But this revelation that came with the reading of Straight on Till Morning has forever changed the story of Peter Pan to me. Which is a pretty big thing to miss in this story I realize–now that I’ve had my “duh” moment. I had always thought that the stories developed after Neverland, not before. When I first read Peter Pan, years and years ago, in addition to watching the many movie adaptations for some strange reason, I never realized that Wendy believed in her stories so intensely before ever traveling to Neverland. It’s every author’s dream to visit the world and characters of their creation, and Wendy is the only one who has every accomplished such a feat! Unexpected dangers and strange foes pop up at every turn, and a little pixie named Tinker Bell seems less than willing to help.īut when Captain Hook reveals some rather permanent and evil plans for Never Land, it’s up to the two of them to save Peter Pan-and his world. But Never Land isn’t quite the place she imagined it would be. So when an opportunity to travel to Never Land via pirate ship presents itself, Wendy makes a deal with the devil. After nearly meeting her hero, Peter Pan, four years earlier, she still holds on to the childhood hope that his magical home truly exists. Wendy’s only real escape is in writing down tales of Never Land. The doldrums of an empty house after her brothers have gone to school, the dull parties where everyone thinks she talks too much, and the fact that her parents have decided to send her away to Ireland as a governess-it all makes her wish things could be different. Sixteen-year-old Wendy Darling’s life is not what she imagined it would be. What if Wendy first traveled to Neverland… with Captain Hook?
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