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I always loved Peter Pan, not really as a kid but more as a teenager and young adult. And once again, the internet happened and every discussion or mention of Peter Pan ended up in a “but did you know he is actually a serial killer and way worse than Hook?�� so I grew tired of it and decided to check it out for myself!

The good :
- I ALWAYS love a very biased narrator and it’s clearly the case. They just dunks on the children for not caring about what they parents might feel with them being missing for days. And a sentence after they just DESTROYS the mother because they just can’t stand her. And that kind of pettiness makes the entire story so freaking hilarious and really something special. He also has some kind of power like deciding which pirate is going to get murdered or throwing a coin to decide which story to tell (and then being unhappy with their choice but still sticking to it)
- Peter Pan is a terrific character and I absolutely get how and why he turned into such a popular one. Let me be clear, yes he does kill lost boys when they grow up but not in a very sinister way if that makes sense? It just goes against his rules and he throws a temper in a very childish manner which makes sense with his character and depending on your point of view makes it worse or not.
He IS a child and a flying jerk but he is fantastic! Being dressed in leaves is HIS things so all the lost boys must wear furs is one examples. Also him switching side to fight on the side of the pirates because the fight is not fair now? You know, especially because the sudden lack of pirates is due to Peter murdering them two seconds ago?
- I love how, unlike in the movie, the kids actually stay in Neverland a few days-weeks unlike a single night.
- Wendy has a pet wolf just like in her daydreams but she forgets about said pet and it just vanishes from the narration and I found that level of detail really funny.
- Hook is great and I loved the crocodile part and its explanation. He also, kinda, faces his ultimate demise with dignity? I really liked that he was a merciless pirate but still had a sliver of decency: he found Peter unarmed and asleep and he was going to murder him but he is “I can’t kill my arch nemesis who looks like a child in his sleep�� and then Peter just smirks in his sleep like a lil shit and Hook is “Nvm, murder it is��!
- I loved that the parents�� portrayal is different from the movie’s. Especially the father who is not such a flat character, he is nicer and kinder here.
- I knew of it but I still loved the ending! Both of the lost boys being adopted by the Darlings and Peter forgetting to visit Wendy because he never keeps track of time. Him not remembering Tinkerbell is brutal tho, especially since she became such a break-out character!

The bad:
- Obviously negative points for the treatment of the Natives. And don’t even start with the “It’s very one dimensional and racist because they are made up version imagined by children growing up with colonial source materials�� and let’s be honest for a second. When the movie version that is TERRIBLE about this is better than the book, you know you fucked up!