Does this make it a bad book? No, not at all. This is theoretically a prequel to the original Peter Pan story, and I enjoyed it thoroughly, but I get the feeling that Barry and Pearson have never read the original, because so much of it is Disney, and so little is Barrie. Call it an alternative history of Peter Pan. So, this Peter must be someone different, because he is a twelve- or thirteen-year-old orphan boy who has been dumped aboard this ratty old ship with five other kids from the Orphanage. I mean after all, anyone who has read Barrie's classic knows Peter was carried off by fairies as a baby from his pram in Kensington Gardens. At this point I had NO idea that the book purported to be a sequel to J.M. I picked it up and read the first few pages. Oh well.Īnyway sitting up there along with a sequel to Inkheart was a book called Peter and the Starcatchers by, of all people, Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson! How curious. Looking in the SF and Fantasy section were all the series books one could want, and many that no one could want. Oh well, save it for later along with Anselm Audley's Inquisition) and I knew I would finish it before the first hop was over. I had a 90% read copy of The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud which was a re-read (and now I find that I haven't reviewed it. I was at a book kiosk at the airport looking for something for the flight back. Peter and the Starcatchers Author: Dave Barry
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