He is actually a dark, twisted villain who is so smoking hot but holds a ton of secrets. We all know the story of Peter Pan but this is twisted into something dark and dangerous and you can bet that Peter Pan is no hero in this story. This book is so good and sucks you in from the very beginning. However they all didn’t count on this Darling girl being so different from the others and it isn’t long before they realize that they do not want to return her. When she is taken though the Never King and the Lost Boys promise to return her but they also promise to break her before they do return her. She is a girl who doesn’t care who or what takes her as long as she can come back with her mind intact. It is a nightmare all the girls have to live. It sure does not sound like a fairytale to her. Winnie Darling is on the verge of her eighteenth birthday and she doesn’t necessarily believe the dark myth. They are shells of the girls who left the night of their birthday. They do not seem to return the same as they were when they left either. But that doesn’t stop the ones who will be turning eighteen soon from living in fear because they are sitting around just waiting on the night that Peter Pan comes for the. To an outsider it looks like a legacy of madness and if you have been a Darling girl you know that Pirates and Lost Boys are not just characters in a fairytale. The Darling girl have always had tragic eighteenth birthdays. * BingeBooks earns revenue from qualifying purchases as an Amazon Associate as well as from other retail partners.This is a dark retelling of Peter and Wendy. Please check the author's website for CWs. You can expect hate kissing, fighting, bickering, and ‘touch her and I’ll unalive you’ vibes. If you like your enemies to lovers romance with hot, ruthless, morally gray love interests, you’ll enjoy The Never King and the Lost Boys. Characters have been aged up for this darker, grittier version.

NOTE: The Never King is a reimagining of Peter and Wendy.

And this time, the Never King and the Lost Boys aren’t willing to let me go. Now, on the afternoon of my 18th birthday, my mother is running around the house making sure all the windows are barred and the doors locked.īecause when night falls, he comes for me. Sometimes they’re gone for only a day, some a week or a month. The stories were all wrong - Hook was never the villain.įor two centuries, all of the Darling women have disappeared on their 18th birthday.

The never king by nikki st crowe