Second Star on May 13th 2014 Pages: 256
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Synopsis
A twisty story about love, loss, and lies, this contemporary oceanside adventure is tinged with a touch of dark magic as it follows seventeen-year-old Wendy Darling on a search for her missing surfer brothers. Wendy's journey leads her to a mysterious hidden cove inhabited by a tribe of young renegade surfers, most of them runaways like her brothers. Wendy is instantly drawn to the cove's charismatic leader, Pete, but her search also points her toward his nemesis, the drug-dealing Jas. Enigmatic, dangerous, and handsome, Jas pulls Wendy in even as she's falling hard for Pete. A radical reinvention of J. M. Barrie's classic tale, Second Star is an irresistible summer romance about two young men who have yet to grow up--and the troubled beauty trapped between them.
I liked how this book started out. Like every Peter Pan fan, I was ecstatic when I started making connections.
But… I think that’s where the joy ended.
For starters, the plot.
Wendy’s quest to find her missing brothers, who had been missing for quite some time, is a little far-fetched. I mean, out of nowhere, she decided that everyone else was wrong and that she just had to go look for her brothers herself.
Which, at first, I could deal with.
But then she meets Pete. Yay!
And their love blossoms.
No, seriously. A couple of surf lessons… (Or was it only one?) and then, bang! She’s getting all touchy feeling with Pete.
The problem here is, that the minute she meets Pete and his merry boys *cough* gang of thieves *cough* friends, the initial quest of finding her brothers disappears. Aside from a few concerns here and there, Wendy does nothing except surfing and living like she has no parents.
This is where another character comes in. Which, you know, you’d assume is the bad guy. It turns out Hook Jas is a drug dealer that throws wild parties in his house and rules a kingdom of junkies. He sells this quaint little substance called ‘Fairy Dust’.
Cute.
One would think that Wendy would stay away from him.
Nope. She didn’t.
Suddenly, Wendy remembered what she had gone there for and enlisted Jas’ help. She decided she loved him.
And then Pete appeared again.
At this point, I had the distinct sensation she’d dreamed it all up. Which, would’ve made me feel very angry.
The end was bleh. I think I get why it ended the way it did. But sometimes, an open ending like that is not always the best thing when the whole story has failed to impress.
The thing that disappointed me the most, however, were the characters themselves. They were too flat. I didn’t see their motivations.
Me, I’ll just stick with the movies and continue believing in faries.
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