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Dec 02, 2014LPL_RachaelH rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
In the days before Wendy, Tiger Lily was a 15 year old girl who had a strong, unimaginable and impossible connection to the leader of the Lost Boys, Peter Pan. When Wendy, and the changes she brings with her, arrive in Neverland, Tiger Lily if forced to make choices that she never wanted to make in the first place. Tinkerbell tells the story a young Tiger Lily who is a wild girl of Neverland and the daughter of a strange shaman named Tik Tok. Tiger Lily is a girl who has a heart but thinks with her head. The book beautify explores the changes that happen when young people are growing up and how relationships change. It also explores LGBTQ sexuality, gender identification, and a community that is changed due to outside influences. The characters are not the ones readers fell in love with in the original story. Some are darker than originally thought and every character is deeper and more complicated. This is a love story but also a sad story. The changes is Tiger Lily's village mirror the changes that are happening with her personal relationships. It's hard not to love the fierce and loyal girl by the end of the book. This is definitely a book to read if you like new twists on old classics!