Second Star

Reviewed by: Mariah Machado - Davis Memorial Library, Limington, Southern Maine Library District

Review Date: January 12, 2015

Review

Alyssa B. Sheinmel re-imagines Peter Pan as a modern day surf bum, Captain Hook as a reluctant drug dealer and Wendy as just a normal girl searching for her runaway brothers. Second Star is a book about hope and loss, and those feelings are conveyed. The book is a bit unrealistic in it's portrayal of drugs, and the main character twice finds insta-love with a boy that is obviously bad news, but despite these short comings the reader will be invested in Wendy's quest, and pulled into the drama happening in the idyllic surfer's cove representing Never-Neverland.

Overall Book Score: good