Title: Tiger Lily
Author: Jodi Lynn Anderson
Pages: 292
Before Peter Pan belonged to Wendy, he belonged to the girl with the crow feather in her hair. . . .
Fifteen-year-old Tiger Lily doesn't believe in love stories or happy endings. Then she meets the alluring teenage Peter Pan in the forbidden woods of Neverland and immediately falls under his spell.
Peter is unlike anyone she's ever known. Impetuous and brave, he both scares and enthralls her. As the leader of the Lost Boys, the most fearsome of Neverland's inhabitants, Peter is an unthinkable match for Tiger Lily. Soon, she is risking everything—her family, her future—to be with him. When she is faced with marriage to a terrible man in her own tribe, she must choose between the life she's always known and running away to an uncertain future with Peter.
With enemies threatening to tear them apart, the lovers seem doomed. But it's the arrival of Wendy Darling, an English girl who's everything Tiger Lily is not, that leads Tiger Lily to discover that the most dangerous enemies can live inside even the most loyal and loving heart.
My Rating:✰✰✰✰
Listen to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GSyXcqvFXA because it very much relates to the book.
Before starting this book, I realized that I have never watched the full Peter Pan movie, so of course that is what I did. After watching it, I decided that I did not like Tinkerbell since she seemed so jealous and envious of Wendy who was innocent.
After reading this book, I've decided that it is Wendy that I do not like and Tinker bell that I do.
This book is not fast paced and very much character driven. It took me quite some time to read, but I overall did like the experience. It lacks action and was slow at some parts since it expanded over a course of months. I was not able to fly through this book although it is short compared to most other young adult books.
I really liked the idea of this book and how it was about a relationship that most people wouldn't notice from the classic tale . The concept was unique and the writing was great. I think it was really cool that it was written from the perspective of a Faerie who can't speak or do much, but listen and watch. Tinkerbell observed everything happening before her, and she was able to read the minds of other people. I loved how she watched out of Tiger Lily and stuck by her side and tried to help her when she can.
Tiger Lily's braveness makes me happy and I appreciate how she rebels against some of the expectations women are supposed to meet in her tribe. She is lonely and has internal conflicts that her herself can't really put into words, yet alone solve them. She is forced into marrying Giant, my least favorite character, who is gross. But she does not want to of course, and seeks something else.
When Phillip arrives, she is kind enough to save him and watch out for him. She stands up for the people she loves. Phillip was an odd character, and as the story grew on, I started to dislike him and how everyone thought he was all knowing and right about everything. I especially did not like him because he did not approve of Tik Tok's ways.
Tick Tock is one of my favorite characters and I loved how he is different. His depression, and then death, made me so extremely sad.
Peter Pan was very much like how I expected him to be. Youthful, energetic, eager.
The love relationship between Tiger Lily and Peter Pan was written in a very blunt, clear way where we could see that there is a connection between the two. We are able to see Tiger Lily instant interest for this curious boy and his feelings return. I enjoyed reading the fun scenes with them and the Lost boys. Majority of this book was about the struggles and choices that Tiger Lily must make. She experiences a love that she will never have again.
Like I said, this book made me like Tinkerbell more. When Wendy arrives, and the struggles between Tiger Lily and Peter increase, things get worst. I do not like Wendy at all, and hate how all of the attention is gone to her. So when Tinkerbell tries to do bad things to Wendy, I am glad.
When Tiger Lily decided to team up with the pirates to get back at Wendy and Peter, I surprisingly was okay with it. I was on her side more than any of the other characters and saw what she was doing was going to help her. But saving them was a part of her nature.
Peter leaving Neverland left me conflicted. I truly believe that he does not belong to Wendy but with Tiger Lily. I question his character, and think that Tiger Lily and Pine Sap will be more happy together than Peter ever will be. His character was never clear to me.
One of the best things about this book was how it wasn't sugar coated or showed the happily ever after for everyone. I think that more fairytale retellings should have elements that this one does with some realism and true struggles and obstacles characters would go through. This new perspective of the fairytale definitely changed my thought on the overall classic story.
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