A review by rainbowsandbookshelves
Losing Neverland by Evelyn Montgomery

adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced
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3.5

Thank you Netgalley and Evelyn Montgomery for the eARC in exchange for an honest review.
Losing Neverland is a Peter Pan/Hook and Wendy smutty retelling, with multiple POVs.
I love Peter Pan retellings and did enjoy reading this. I enjoyed the Hook/Peter idea and it had some good spicy tension throughout.
However, I found some of the plot to be a bit underdeveloped, including plot and characters. I also found the ending a bit rushed and am personally not a fan of vague/ambiguous endings. I'm not sure if some things will be addressed in other books in this series by Montgomery but I do feel like Peter and Wendy's storyline is over and there are some things that are unresolved.
There was potential here but some character plotlines were not really explained.
I felt like there was very little care for Wendy's daughters - I get that they're in college but they're still only 17 and we're barely mentioned/she didn't seem to care much about seeing them again. I also found it weird that Peter did actually realise they were his but still reacted negatively towards seeing Wendy at the beginning and didn't seem to want to know his children at all. John's betrayal was also completely glossed over/forgotten - there was no resolution or even acknowledgement that Wendy knew he had betrayed her.
A few elements just didnt work for me, unfortunately.
I did enjoy the beginning and premise of Losing Neverland, and would try other books by Montgomery, but this didn't quite hit all my boxes for a good, Peter Pan retelling. 

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