Title: Tiger Lily
Release Date: July 3rd, 2012
Genre: young adult, romance, retelling
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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.
From the New York Times bestselling author of Peaches comes a magical and bewitching story of the romance between a fearless heroine and the boy who wouldn't grow up.
Oh my gosh. This. Book. Blew. Me. Away.
“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.”
Tiger Lily is a prequel to the Peter Pan story. I wondered if Tiger Lily was a real character of the Peter Pan story and she really was. This story broke my heart and made me cry. It's such an intense story with so many twist. It was heartbreaking, sad, and beautiful. The writing was so beautiful and written so descriptive. Good job Miss Anderson !
“Sometimes I think that maybe we are just stories. Like we may as well just be words on a page, because we're only what we've done and what we are going to do.”
At first I didn't want to read this book. I was doing some sample readings and I came across this book. The beginning confuse me at first and made me want to drop it but the summery sounded so interesting and the reviews from this book said it was good so I decided to give it a good and I'm so happy I didn't drop it. This story was told by Tinkerbell which thrown me off at first but she described everything so well it made me forgot that she was telling the story and was actually inside of Tiger Lily and Peter Pan's head.
“And I never expected that you could have a broken heart and love with it too, so much that it doesn't seem broken at all.”
Peter, oh Peter. The Pan you read in this story is so unlike the one you watched in movie. This Peter is broken and lonely, even though he has the lost boys with him. This Peter was swooned me. I find him and Tiger Lily so cute together and it made me mad how he treated Tiger Lily in the middle.
“She did not believe he could have really gone, because for her, to leave the person you loved was impossible.”
The ending was sad but it's that kind of sad to accept to like it was meant for it to happen and we must accept that and move on with life. This book also made me hate Wendy Darling. She was so vulnerable and out of place but that's just how I feel.
Would I recommend it? Of course!
Would I reread it? Of course but one day.
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