My story could banish me from Neverland and the two most important women in my life. But they’ve asked for it, and I can’t tell them no.We’ve settled down to a Peter Pan free Neverland. I’ve even gone back to teaching. I think everyone’s favorite part of the night is our story time. But Jade and Elise have asked for my story. Everything about my past from before I got to Neverland and the full … before I got to Neverland and the full story about what happened between me and Peter Pan. I’m not proud of some of the things that evil boy brought out in me.
The Queen of the Fairies and her entire court as well as all of the mermaids have turned out to hear my story. Queen Mab could send me home and take me away from my daughter and my love if she deems my sins too great.
This is my story. It’s the story of how the youngest son of a Lord became a pirate. It’s the story of how James Barrett Cunningham became the infamous pirate James Hook. It’s the story of how James Hook became simply Jas of Neverland and finally found the place he finally felt he belonged.
But are the crimes of James Barrett Cunningham and James Hook enough for me as simply Jas to have to leave Neverland for good?
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When I started reading this story, I could not put it down. I read the book in one day. This author is an awesome writer. I can not wait to read more of their books. Keep up the great work. You should definitely read this book.
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This is a fab second book in this awesome fairytale retelling! First book was Peter Pan, this book is all about Hook and it is just awesome! I loved this version of Hook as it is so different from the version we all grew up with and found this tale to be as gripping and addictive as the first!
HOOK is J.B. Trepagnier’s second book in the NEVERLAND IN CHAOS series, the first being THE LOST GIRL OF NEVERLAND. HOOK centers on a young Lord James Barrett Cunningham long before he becomes the Captain James Hook we all know from J.M. Barrie’s PETER PAN. Young James is sickened by his parents treatment of his sick sister Elise, and is motivated to run away. By the time his service in the Royal Navy ends and he makes it to Neverland, his puritan English upbringing is left far behind. Graphic group sex scenes are interspersed between the major plot points.
I loved the second book in this series!! JB did an amazing job of the back story to Hook. The details and character build up is done nicely. I can’t wait for book 3!!
This is the back story of Jas, aka Captain Hook. It takes you back to when he was a teenager when he lost his twin sister & wasn’t able to be with her when she died. Immediately, her parents removed all traces of her & wouldn’t acknowledge her existence. Jas, at the time went by James, vowed revenge & left to be a part of the Royal Navy. He proves his worth the first day on the ship. Fast forward several years to when he meets Sara who becomes the love of his life & makes her his wife. He has to leave for 6 months & when he comes back he finds her pregnant. Once the child is born, a girl he names Elise, Sara wants nothing to do with her because she wasn’t a son. He raises her to be the type of woman he believes she should be.
Elise dreams of Neverland & Peter Pan & she tells him about her dreams. He thinks they are just dreams, but when she goes missing in the middle of the night from behind a locked door he begins to wonder. Several of his students tell him that they have had the same dreams, and he knows that both are real. He starts trying to find a way to get there to bring her home & gets lucky in a pub when Smee comes in trying to buy ale with fairy dust.
He spends the next few centuries trying to find her. This goes in to part of the story from The Lost Girl of Neverland where he meets Jade & the Wildlings. If you haven’t read it, make sure you do or you might be somewhat lost in parts of the latter part of his story.
I thought this was a unique twist on Captain Hook’s story since we all know he dies when he’s eaten by the crocodile in the original fairy tale. I really liked this story. I think you will enjoy it as well.
Hook has finally found love but will his untold story the one that Jade and Elise had asked to hear be to unforgivable for the Queen to accept?
Hook/Jas aka James Barrett Cunningham tells everyone his story from the beginning going back to his childhood, telling them all about his dreams, his regrets and so forth.
You get a real feel for who Hook is, though he isn’t perfect some people can change… it’s a matter if others will accept them.
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This was an interesting story with the view from Captain Hook. I really enjoyed the fun characters and the unique and exciting story about how James became Hook and how he came to Neverland.
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I loved the idea of getting to see the life of Captain Hook, and this did a good job at giving him an origin story. I was expecting it just to pick up from when Elise, his daughter in the previous book was kidnapped, but it actually starts earlier from his childhood. It also does a good job at leading into the classic Peter Pan tale without changing it or tossing out details to throw the character into a better light. The beginning was a recap of the first book and the second chapter was just fluff of how wonderful Jade, the main character from the first book, is and how innovative and important her “harem” is (which it really isn’t since harems are a dime-a-dozen these days with this one standing out oddly because the author actually labels it as a harem and calls it that within dialogue during the book. Why give it a label?) So, admittedly, I just skimmed the first couple of chapters looking for new stuff. It’s like the author has ADHD, ideas ping pong around randomly within paragraphs, a lot of times ending on sex even though the original topic/thought had nothing to do with sex. Thoughts, ideas, and even dialogue get repeated a lot. Like it needed a heavier hand at editing. At 68% we hit the events of the previous book. From there on out till about 88% it’s a direct copy of all of the scenes from the previous book that had Hook in them, but from his perspective. All of the dialogue is the same and the author didn’t trim it in any way, and there is little to change it, and little insight, from the previous time through. So, if you’ve read the previous book, all this can be skipped. Considering the previous book was predominantly dialogue, it’s like only a sentence or two different here and there. I get the feeling the author did that to lengthen the book and as an excuse to revisit all of the sex scenes since as it stood, it only had a couple of sex scenes by this point. There was a weird obsession on women’s rights too. It’s nice and all to be progressive for the time period, but weird to spend so much time obsessing about it as the dialogue and thoughts kept getting repeated over and over. The swear words still don’t fit with the time period and definitely don’t make any sense coming out of the mouths of Neverland mermaids (why/how would they know modern swear words?) And more obsessing on what is and isn’t proper sexual relations and stressing how harems aren’t proper. (Why obsess on how improper it is and yet encourage it?) It still feels like a double-standard and controlling that Jade wants all the guys to have sex with her, but then goes insanely jealous to even think of them being with other women, as in she can have multiple partners, but they can’t. So not fair! In all, I wouldn’t read this book without the reading the first book, but on the flip side, if you have read the first book, a lot of this is repeat. In all, I thought it was a creative take on Hook’s life and rounded him out nicely, rather than just the villain from the Peter Pan story, and more than just a romantic scoundrel from the previous book.
Who would have guessed that the dashing, swashbuckling Captain James Hook was actually a women’s, children’s, and animal rights champion? Swoon! This was a wonderful ”memoir” about his pre-Neverland days as well as a recap of his exploits in Neverland. It is full of thrilling adventures, a little heartbreak, and a lot of steam.
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I was really excited about the grown up version of Peter Pan. I enjoyed the first book with it’s darker themes and was excited about the story of Hook. I don’t think it really brought anything to fledgling series. It was interesting to see the author’s take on Hook’s background, but I found the first half slow and the second half expected I hope the next is the first
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This book has a great backstory for the famous captain Hook of Never Land. This book isn’t very steamy but it has sweet parts and shows how love comes in many forms. It was a great read and I can’t wait for the next installment in the series.
This is the second book in this series. This is James’s (Jas aka Hook) story. It details his childhood, Sarah, Elise, Jade, and Neverland. Good book, well written!
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