I wasn't going to write a review. I'm usually too lazy for reviews, but I really feel like this one deserves one. So here it is:
This book starts off the way the first scene is depicted, calm, even languorous with mysteries abound. The life on a magical island, the innocence of childhood are the most present in the first part: Charlie. As our protoganist (or as the world knows, our villain) discovers the truth about the island, about Peter, experiences losses (which I won't talk about because spoilers!!!) and learns along the way how nothing is like he has been thinking they were for roughly a century, this magic slowly disappears and leaves its place to terror. The pain and hatred of our narrator were easily accessible and realistic enough for the reader. It is almost as if Jamie knew everything all along, but did not want to admit who Peter was to himself, and that was what kept him from growing up. Not any magic other than the wish to believe in the innocence of a friend.
I really liked Jamie and Sal, however Nod was the character who surprised me the most. Without giving away anything important, all I can say is that the book concludes with a yearning for revenge, a cold, calculated revenge only an adult can experience and the sense of dark skies right before an everlasting storm. And this striking differences in the atmosphere and conditions in a relatively short book, the transformation from a childhood long ago started to go rotten to an adulthood pretty much cursed are what made me love this book that much.
I wasn't going to write a review. I'm usually too lazy for reviews, but I really feel like this one deserves one. So here it is:
This book starts off the way the first scene is depicted, calm, even languorous with mysteries abound. The life on a magical island, the innocence of childhood are the most present in the first part: Charlie. As our protoganist (or as the world knows, our villain) discovers the truth about the island, about Peter, experiences losses (which I won't talk about because spoilers!!!) and learns along the way how nothing is like he has been thinking they were for roughly a century, this magic slowly disappears and leaves its place to terror. The pain and hatred of our narrator were easily accessible and realistic enough for the reader. It is almost as if Jamie knew everything all along, but did not want to admit who Peter was to himself, and that was what kept him from growing up. Not any magic other than the wish to believe in the innocence of a friend.
I really liked Jamie and Sal, however Nod was the character who surprised me the most. Without giving away anything important, all I can say is that the book concludes with a yearning for revenge, a cold, calculated revenge only an adult can experience and the sense of dark skies right before an everlasting storm. And this striking differences in the atmosphere and conditions in a relatively short book, the transformation from a childhood long ago started to go rotten to an adulthood pretty much cursed are what made me love this book that much.