For the last 200 years the women of the Darling family have disappeared – taken – on the night of their 18th birthday. They return, weeks or months later, with their minds scrambled. Or so Winnie Darling’s mother tells her.

Winnie doesn’t believe her of course. She knows that the doctors say her mother is schizophrenic, just like her all the women of her family. And that some day she too will succumb to this hereditary madness. Until the day she turns 18 and Peter Pan shows up at her door.

In this version of Neverland the Lost Boys might be human, but Peter Pan and his entourage are fae. And these are much more the traditional version of fae I’m used to, beings that might be friendly, but are much more likely to choose to prey on humans or just mess with them for their own sport. Kidnapping young human women is just a Thursday for them.

But Winnie isn’t quite like the other girls they’ve kidnapped. She’s had to learn to survive in a chaotic environment where she’s always on the run and there’s never enough to go around. And knowing she’s going to go insane at some point in her adult life has given her a pretty “seize the day” attitude towards life. So their kidnapping victim lands in Neverland like an agent of chaos. A very horny agent of chaos.

So I have to start out by saying I enjoy this book. Winnie is snarky and impulsive and absolutely gets the best lines in the book. If you like your sex rough and your bad boys violent, this is the book for you.

If I have one complaint, it feels like the writing is very spare. The dialogue is punchy, which is good, but it feels like all the description is written the same way as the dialogue. The book ends up being a really fast read and the action scenes are over too fast. I feel like we could spend a lot more time getting to know the characters and getting invested in them.