Synopsis: This is a much darker version of the Peter Pan story, narrated by Tinkerbelle. In this story, we meet 15-year-old Tiger Lily, who rescues and falls in love with Peter Pan; but when Wendy Darling arrives, everything changes.
Genre: fantasy, romance, fairy tale
Pages: 292
Level: intermediate
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Opening paragraphs:
Let me tell you something straight off. This is a love story, but not like any you've ever heard. The boy and the girl are far from innocent. Dear lives are lost. And good doesn't win. In some places, there is something ultimately good about endings. In Neverland, that is not the case.
To understand what it's like to be a faerie, tall as a walnut and genetically gifted with wings--who happened to witness such a series of events--you must first understand that all faeries are mute. Somewhere in our evolution, on our long crooked journey from amoeba to dragonfly to faerie, nature must have decided language wasn't necessary for us to survive. It's good in some ways, not to have a language. It makes you see things. You turn your attention, not to babbling about yourself, broadcasting each and every thought to everyone within earshot--as people often do--but to observing. That's how faeries became so empathic. We're so attuned to the beating of a heart, the varied thrum of a pulse, the zaps of the synapses of a brain, that we are almost inside others' minds. Most faeries tune this out by only spending time with other faeries. They make settlements in tree stumps and barely venture out except to hunt mosquitoes. I get bored by that. I like to fly and keep an eye on things. That was how I saw it, from the beginning. Some would like to call it being nosy. That's what my mother would say, at least.
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