Wendy Darling Vol 3. Shadow by Colleen Oakes

Wendy Darling Vol 3. Shadow by Colleen Oakes

Goodreads Blurb: War has come to paradise, and the Neverland you know will never be the same.

Wendy Darling finds herself once again in the arms of Peter Pan, a charming god-child who desires power above all things. Instead of the passion she once had for him, however, this time Wendy’s hear burns with a secret: with Hook as her ally, she is there to defeat the evil that lies inside of Peter, the darkness that holds all Neverland hostage—the Shadow.

This is a task made nearly impossible by the arrival of Booth, her sweetheart from London and a new pawn in Peter's manipulative game—a boy whose heart she must break in order to save his life.

As all of Neverland prepares to fight, Wendy races to untangle Peter's connection to the Shadow, a secret long buried in the Forsaken Garden. When the time comes, all of Neverland will rise to fight—but if Wendy can't call the Shadow, everything she is fighting for will be destroyed. Is Wendy’s love for her family enough to save them, or will Peter’s madness consume them all?

My Thoughts:  Finally I was able to get me hands on this book and I was so excited to read it I feel like I read it too fast and now the adventure is over but I don’t want to leave Neverland! The book picks up right where book 2 leaves off and Wendy has so much going, so many secrets to keep track of and she has to be on her A-game 24/7. I like Wendy best in this book versus book 1 and 2. I feel like Wendy has become more of a bad-ass and in charge of her future than before. Though I am sad this is the final book I found the ending to be unexpected and not where I thought the story was going to go. I feel like how Colleen Oakes ended the book she could do a continuation but I ‘m not which character direction I would want her to go in.

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Wendy Darling Vol. 2 Seas by Colleen Oakes

Wendy Darling Vol. 2 Seas by Colleen Oakes

Goodreads Blurb: Wendy Darling: Seas finds Wendy and Michael aboard the dreaded Sudden Night, a dangerous behemoth sailed by the infamous Captain Hook and his bloodthirsty crew. In this exotic world of mermaids, spies, and pirate feuds, Wendy finds herself struggling to keep her family above the waves. Hunted by the twisted boy who once stole her heart and struggling to survive in the whimsical Neverland sea, returning home to London now seems like a distant dream—and the betrayals have just begun.

Will Wendy find shelter with Peter’s greatest enemy, or is she a pawn in a much darker game—one that could forever alter not only her family’s future but also the soul of Neverland itself?

My Thoughts: One of my favorite parts about this series is how “dark” it is. Peter Pan is not the sweet innocent little boy we thought we knew. If you have read book 1 then you are very familiar with his evil nature and he doesn’t let up in book 2. Wendy spends most of her time on the Sudden Night with Hook where Hook goes into detail about he and Pan became to be enemies and such. The whole book is very well written in my opinion. The ending, literally the last page, of this book made my heart drop. I will be on edge until book 3, Shadow.