Reviews for Wendy

The average rating for Wendy based on 2 reviews is 1 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-01-01 00:00:00 Catherine Verma This book was like poison. Half-way through I had to put it down and give up on its ever getting better. This book for me totally ruins the magical world of Peter Pan. It is suppose to be Wendy's Pre-Peter Pan world. It doesn't paint a very pretty one. This novel seems bent on portraying every worse case scenario that could happen to children in Victorian England. It is filled with petty, shallow, and immoral characters. Wendy is continually hurt and betrayed by the adults in her life. From this author's perspective, it is easy to see why Wendy would never want to grow up and become an adult. If I were her, I would have run away to Neverland, too! Bad things kept on occurring to the children in the book, but I finally put it down in disgust when it became apparent that Wendy's adored and child-like mother was having an affair with a mentally handicapped 15 year old boy. I don't know why this novel was so critically acclaimed and praised, but it definitely painted pictures that I didn't want to read!

Review # 2 was written on 2009-05-05 00:00:00 Gustaaf Plancke I was pre-reading this to see if it was appropriate for my eight-year-old, who wants to read every Peter Pan related book written in English. It was entirely realistic with not a touch of fantasy. After spending so many pages observing this perceptive little girl's agony, caused by her precocious ability to empathize with adult problems like adultery and financial ruin, the author provides us only an overly simplistic resolution that no one older than fourteen could believe really helps anything get better. When her contact with Peter is finally foreshadowed, the author insinuates that he's the product of an emotionally deprived child's head trauma. A sad and pointless story. I'm not letting my kid touch this with a ten foot pole.