Y’all, I couldn’t have enjoyed this book more.
Until one day, an adult woman from 1950s England appears in the Neverland. Time after time, Hook and his men lose, and he sees them all massacred - men who were once Lost Boys themselves, and have returned to Neverland as adults, to be pirates. Time after time, with new batches of Lost Boys, new Wendys come to be mothers, Peter Pan wages war on Captain Hook and his new batch of pirates. I have only heartlessness, and it is never, ever enough. He has youth and innocence on his side, and the heartlessness that comes with them. Is it any wonder I so often tried to kill him? Would not his death break the enchantment of this awful place and release us both? But I can never best him. Since then, he has defeated me innumerable times, but never quite to the death. “It’s Hook or me this time,” the boy jeered as the massacre began. Cursed by a former lover, Hook must live forever in Neverland, perpetually fighting with Peter Pan and group after group of Lost Boys, never able to leave the Neverland, never able to die. There is nothing in that sentence that doesn’t make me shriek with joy. Alias Hook is the backstory of Captain Hook from Peter Pan, starting with his life as a Restoration-era privateer. I was so excited for this book that I put a reminder in my calendar to request a review copy in June.
In the case of Alias Hook, I could not allow this to happen. So usually what happens is that I forget about all of them until they’re already published and I can just get them from the library. This is to stop myself from immediately requesting 50 review books, which would only lead to my having way too many books to read and not enough time to read them all. When publishers release their seasonal catalogues, I make note of all the books that sound interesting, in my TBR spreadsheet. Note: I received a copy of Alias Hook from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
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