Lost Boy by Christina Henry
When I started Reading Lost Boy I knew I was going to travel to a past fantasy world from childhood, meaning Neverland. It was a very amusing experience in discovering the roots of the main characters we now know as Captain Hook and Peter Pan.
I do not want to spoil the book for whoever hasn't read it, yet. I would say read it to then discover all the next points which I'm about to unravel.
I believe that as a person you noticed the character development over the main character Jamie and feel sympathy towards him. This can mean as well as connecting the same feelings towards the character Peter, feelings such as rage, anger and even hatred. For personal experience I loved Peter Pan and as a young child always imagined how fun it would be to be young forever ,fight pirates and have much more adventures. However this specific book made me think in more deep circumstances: safety, diseases, monsters, fight until death with a grown up twice my size, starvation and even nature wise: bears and crocodiles, like it is described within the book.
Due to all of this I started to believe that somehow the kids would be taught how to survive, how to proper fight someone taller, stronger and even older then themselves, but then we find out that it is not what we believe and the main character Jamie sees himself as the favourite one since he was the first one Peter brought to Neverland. Jamie feels like if he was the one who has the power over the boys after Peter.
Jamie is represented by this means as a parental figure which in the eyes of Peter is something obnoxiously horrible. And by the end of the book we unravel a deep secret which then will then explain to the reader what the character himself was thinking in the start of this story.
My personal opinion is that this book itself reveals deep thoughts in how life actually works within the cicle of life. By Jamie demonstarting his inner thoughts and his leaderships skills with the lost boys we notice that life itself is not as easy as Peter makes it out, life has its dangers and consequences. Jamie creates this window where children or young minds who ready it appreaciate then more the hard work that aults and grown ups do for them as indivduals.
Furthermore I believe this was briliant book, I read it as a terrific mind unraveling path full of mind resoluting quests.
Thank you for Reading.
