Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook

Name: Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook
Price: 19.00 USD
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ISBN: 9780399584022

✍️ Christina Henry

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🏛 Berkley Books 📅 2017 📖 292 pages 🌐 English 📔 Paperback ISBN: 9780399584022

📝 Description: Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook

"From the national bestselling author of Alice comes a familiar story with a dark hook--a tale about Peter Pan and the friend who became his nemesis, a nemesis who may not be the blackhearted villain Peter says he is ..."--

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Christina Henry refashions the classic Neverland myth into a chilling dark fantasy that explores how friendship curdles into bitter enmity between Peter Pan and the boy who would become Captain Hook. Rather than relying on cheap jump scares, the novel cultivates an unsettling, claustrophobic atmosphere of psychological dread, examining the cruelty hiding behind eternal youth and the heavy toll of survival in a lawless paradise. The narrative thrives on moral ambiguity, casting doubt on who the true villain of the island actually is. It suits readers who appreciate subversive fairy-tale retellings, character-driven tension, and a mature, melancholic shade of horror that lingers long after the final page.

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Horror Reads editorial team

Christina Henry refashions the classic Neverland myth into a chilling dark fantasy that explores how friendship curdles into bitter enmity between Peter Pan and the boy who would become Captain Hook. Rather than relying on cheap jump scares, the novel cultivates an unsettling, claustrophobic atmosphere of psychological dread, examining the cruelty hiding behind eternal youth and the heavy toll of survival in a lawless paradise. The narrative thrives on moral ambiguity, casting doubt on who the true villain of the island actually is. It suits readers who appreciate subversive fairy-tale retellings, character-driven tension, and a mature, melancholic shade of horror that lingers long after the final page.