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It Came from Neverland

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It Came from Neverland

By: Cynthia Pelayo
Narrated by: Ella Lynch, Rory Barnett
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Peter Pan meets Stephen King's It in this twisted horror retelling of a classic childhood fairy tale set during WWI.

1914, Wendy Darling works by day as a school teacher, and by night, she assists soldiers who have returned home from the Western Front. There is one mysterious patient who, despite all the care they’ve given him, is in a deep sleep, unable to wake up. One night, when he murmurs the words “Peter Pan,” Wendy is thrown back to a darker time, one that she wishes she could forget.

When one of her students goes missing, it brings back memories of when children went missing and were later found murdered in London many years ago. Wendy is convinced that Peter Pan, the entity that she believes killed those children, is back. She and her brothers had a close encounter with Peter Pan, after all. But her brothers only remember Peter Pan and Neverland as a fantasy of childhood games.

When another child goes missing and signs start to point to Wendy, Scotland Yard digs into old reports, finding that Wendy knew the names of all the children who had been killed. As Wendy tries to prove her innocence, she also has to find a way to stop Peter Pan once and for all.

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I was so excited about this title coming out and couldn’t decide whether to get it as a physical copy or audiobook - well, I made the wrong choice! I liked the female narrator in the preview and was getting into the story until suddenly the male narrator appeared for the voices of both John and Michael, and I’m gutted to say I had to stop listening a few hours from the end. The male narrator is utterly dreadful! He overacts hugely and gives it a proper GCSE Drama level performance. It’s like he didn’t understand that this was a horror retelling and went all out panto. I stuck with it as long as I could but it’s so jarring against the much more subtle female narrator - and it just got worse when they bizarrely intercut both to make it like a full cast drama midway through instead of sticking with Wendy’s POV.

I’ll be ordering the physical copy instead as this is a really intriguing concept and I was really into it - barring the bunch of Americanisms that are inexplicably in a text set in Britain in 1914 (“gotten”, “recess” and “girlfriends” are the worst offenders). Really mixed experience and I want to persevere as this is a really interesting take on the story, I just found the audio hard going. If you’re reading this and debating the same, go with the physical copy!!!!

Sadly ruined by dreadful male narrator

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