Alias Hook

author: Lisa Jensen

name: Wayne

average rating: 3.50

book published: 2013

rating: 5

read at: 2014/12/17

date added: 2014/12/17

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review:

'Alias Hook' takes a familiar story and spins it on its head. We've seen it before and sometimes it doesn't work so well, but I kind of loved this book.



The story begins in Neverland with Captain Hook falling in the water about to be eaten by a crocodile. Only he isn't. He alone is spared of his crew, and this is his cruel existence. To get a new crew and watch them be murdered by Peter Pan and his boys. It's been happening for a couple centuries, and Hook is in agony.



But something new has happened that Pan doesn't know about. In a world where he knows and controls all, something unexpected has happened. Will this be what Hook needs to escape?



This in not a fairytale for children by any means, but it is a sort of fairytale for adults. We find out about Hook's past as James Benjamin Hookbridge and the actions that got him where he is. We learn that fairytales and flying are fine for children, but there are finer things for grownups. I've loved the story of Peter Pan since I was a child, and I loved this interesting perspective on it with a pirate weary of fighting and death and just wanting a way to escape.



I received a review copy of this ebook from St. Martin's Press, Thomas Dunne Books and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for letting me review this great book.





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