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The Never King
Vicious Lost Boys, Book 1
Nikki St. Crowe
On her eighteenth birthday, Winnie Darling is taken to Neverland by the Never King — the fate that has haunted Darling women for generations. Peter Pan and his Lost Boys are not willing to let her go, and Neverland is far less interested in childhood magic than it is in keeping its secrets alive.
Frequent and increasingly group-focused, with the relationship dynamics expanding as Winnie's ties to Peter, Kas, Bash, and Vane develop.
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Clocked.
if you never actually wanted to grow up either
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This book is great for
A dark Peter Pan retelling with a dying Neverland, a villain who refuses to let Winnie go, and four men who turn "lost boys" into a very different promise.
- is why-choose-curious and wants a dark-fantasy entry point
- wants childhood nostalgia dragged somewhere it was never meant to go
- likes captor dynamics wrapped in myth and magic
- needs the fantasy setting to have actual teeth
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