Title: Lost in the Never Woods
Author: Aiden Thomas
Publisher: Swoon Reads
Release Date: March 23, 2021
Pages: 512
When children go missing, people want answers. When children go missing in the small coastal town of Astoria, people look to Wendy for answers.
It's been five years since Wendy and her two brothers went missing in the woods, but when the town’s children start to disappear, the questions surrounding her brothers’ mysterious circumstances are brought back into light. Attempting to flee her past, Wendy almost runs over an unconscious boy lying in the middle of the road, and gets pulled into the mystery haunting the town.
Peter, a boy she thought lived only in her stories, claims that if they don't do something, the missing children will meet the same fate as her brothers. In order to find them and rescue the missing kids, Wendy must confront what's waiting for her in the woods.
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Five years ago, Wendy and her little brothers went missing. After six months, only Wendy came back alive but with no memories of what happened. Since then, when children go missing in her town, people start turning to her for answers but Wendy can't answer any of them.
No one liked her birthday. Her parents didn't like it because it reminded them that their two sons were missing. The only good thing about this birthday was that now she was eighteen, it was summer, and in a few months she would be off to college. Away from the ghosts that followed her.
Though Wendy has many people around her who have been with her since then, not many people know how she actually feels. The trauma and guilt she carries on her shoulders every day seems to drag her down. Then one night she spots the boy in her dreams lying in front of her.
He was older than the boy from her drawings. His face wasn't as round and his cheeks weren't as full as the dozens of sketches that littered her car, but there was something about the slope of his nose and the curve of his chin that she recognized.
So this is the first book I read by Aiden Thomas and I'm not disappointed. I haven't read Cemetery Boys (it's on my TBR) but I've heard many great things about it. Definitely going to check it out soon!
Star Rating: ★★★☆☆ (3.5)
I felt that the first 60% of the book was a little slow but I was immersed in the ending. I felt that Wendy and Peter shouldn't have spent so much time hanging out while time was running out. They instead could have used that time to plan what they were going to do to catch the shadow.
This book is darker than the normal Peter Pan story and scaredy-cat me definitely got scared when I read it before going to sleep. Personally, I wouldn't recommend reading it before going to sleep but if you can take it, go ahead.
Overall, Lost in the Never Woods was an interesting book that takes on a dark retelling of Peter Pan. I liked how the story has just the right amount of differences from the original but also similar in some aspects. For those that love dark retellings, this book will be perfect for you.
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About the Author
Aiden Thomas is a New York Times Bestselling author with an MFA in Creative Writing. Originally from Oakland, California, they now make their home in Portland, Oregon. As a queer, trans, Latinx, Aiden advocates strongly for diverse representation in all media. Aiden’s special talents include: quoting The Office, finishing sentences with “is my FAVORITE”, and killing spiders. Aiden is notorious for not being able to guess the endings of books and movies, and organizes their bookshelves by color.
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