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I checked this out because it's all over TikTok as a romance book, but the cover is not romance genre-y at all.
I was curious, so I looked it up. It's billed as a dark romance take on Peter Pan. You can also tell how huge it is on TikTok specifically because of this odd bit in the blurb on Amazon:
You can expect hate kissing, fighting, bickering, and ‘touch her and I’ll unalive you’ vibes.
TikTok bans the words "kill," "dead," "death," etc, so if you need to use them in book blurbs, you either talk around it or use "unalive."
All this made me curious, so I gave it a try.
It opens with the heroine, who we later learn is nicknamed Winnie Whore, fucking a football player.
Anthony shoves inside of me and I make the porn star face for him because I know he likes it.
I pretend to orgasm with him.
I am not a porn star, but I am the daughter of a prostitute so I think that's close enough.
Winnie Whore is a Darling. All the Darling women are kidnapped by Peter Pan on their 18th birthdays. They get returned a couple days or weeks later, insane.
Sure enough, Winnie is kidnapped by a hot, grown-up Peter Pan and wakes up chained to a bed in Neverland. She's surrounded by hot, grown-up Lost Boys who darkly warn her of vague terrible things while not actually doing anything bad to her beyond the kidnapping and chains. In fact one of them cooks her pancakes.
He is gorgeous in his own right. Different from Pan and Vane. They're all gorgeous.
It makes the basketball team look like a bunch of ferrets.
As you can tell, each sentence, or at most three, gets one paragraph. There are multiple first-person narrators and they all sound exactly the same. At one point I thought I was reading Winnie's POV and then I hit My cock takes notice and I have to fight the urge to readjust and I was briefly interested until I realized it was actually one of the dude narrators.
(When I searched for "cock" to find this line, the next two usages, in order, were My cock takes notice and When I readjust my cock, it almost hurts.
Winnie enthusiastically fucks all the Lost Boys. The sex scenes are boring and wham bam thank you ma'am, but there's a lot of them and the appeal of this book is pretty obvious. It's porn, porn, porn, porn, with a lot of talk about darkness and danger...
Is he going to fuck me too?
Fill me with terror and cum?
...but in fact, she only ever gets filled with cum. And she enthusiastically consents to everything. And they feed her pancakes and berries and coffee.
It's honestly the best cup I've ever had. Better than Starbucks.
The author seems way more sincerely enthusiastic about the food than the sex, in fact.
I swallow down my last bite of buttery, flaky, oh-so-delicious croissant.
Oh, wait. There is one bit of danger. Winnie, still in Neverland, wanders off to some sort of frat party (I don't get this either) and fucks some random dude. Pan literally rips out his heart with his bare hands mid-fuck. Winnie is mildly miffed but gets over it fast.
Oh, and Peter Pan sleeps in a tomb and is allergic to sunlight. Nothing really comes of this. It;s never explained why all the other Darling women went insane. Neverland is an interesting HOOK but the book really could take place anywhere, any time.
This book is pretty terrible but I think it appeals strongly to the rather large market of readers who 1) like the trope of lots of talk of danger and darkness but nothing actually bad ever happens to the heroine, 2) like reverse harem (one woman, lots of hot men), 3) want porn with dirty talk.
Here is the even more sexy and appealing cover of the sequel.
I was curious, so I looked it up. It's billed as a dark romance take on Peter Pan. You can also tell how huge it is on TikTok specifically because of this odd bit in the blurb on Amazon:
You can expect hate kissing, fighting, bickering, and ‘touch her and I’ll unalive you’ vibes.
TikTok bans the words "kill," "dead," "death," etc, so if you need to use them in book blurbs, you either talk around it or use "unalive."
All this made me curious, so I gave it a try.
It opens with the heroine, who we later learn is nicknamed Winnie Whore, fucking a football player.
Anthony shoves inside of me and I make the porn star face for him because I know he likes it.
I pretend to orgasm with him.
I am not a porn star, but I am the daughter of a prostitute so I think that's close enough.
Winnie Whore is a Darling. All the Darling women are kidnapped by Peter Pan on their 18th birthdays. They get returned a couple days or weeks later, insane.
Sure enough, Winnie is kidnapped by a hot, grown-up Peter Pan and wakes up chained to a bed in Neverland. She's surrounded by hot, grown-up Lost Boys who darkly warn her of vague terrible things while not actually doing anything bad to her beyond the kidnapping and chains. In fact one of them cooks her pancakes.
He is gorgeous in his own right. Different from Pan and Vane. They're all gorgeous.
It makes the basketball team look like a bunch of ferrets.
As you can tell, each sentence, or at most three, gets one paragraph. There are multiple first-person narrators and they all sound exactly the same. At one point I thought I was reading Winnie's POV and then I hit My cock takes notice and I have to fight the urge to readjust and I was briefly interested until I realized it was actually one of the dude narrators.
(When I searched for "cock" to find this line, the next two usages, in order, were My cock takes notice and When I readjust my cock, it almost hurts.
Winnie enthusiastically fucks all the Lost Boys. The sex scenes are boring and wham bam thank you ma'am, but there's a lot of them and the appeal of this book is pretty obvious. It's porn, porn, porn, porn, with a lot of talk about darkness and danger...
Is he going to fuck me too?
Fill me with terror and cum?
...but in fact, she only ever gets filled with cum. And she enthusiastically consents to everything. And they feed her pancakes and berries and coffee.
It's honestly the best cup I've ever had. Better than Starbucks.
The author seems way more sincerely enthusiastic about the food than the sex, in fact.
I swallow down my last bite of buttery, flaky, oh-so-delicious croissant.
Oh, wait. There is one bit of danger. Winnie, still in Neverland, wanders off to some sort of frat party (I don't get this either) and fucks some random dude. Pan literally rips out his heart with his bare hands mid-fuck. Winnie is mildly miffed but gets over it fast.
Oh, and Peter Pan sleeps in a tomb and is allergic to sunlight. Nothing really comes of this. It;s never explained why all the other Darling women went insane. Neverland is an interesting HOOK but the book really could take place anywhere, any time.
This book is pretty terrible but I think it appeals strongly to the rather large market of readers who 1) like the trope of lots of talk of danger and darkness but nothing actually bad ever happens to the heroine, 2) like reverse harem (one woman, lots of hot men), 3) want porn with dirty talk.
Here is the even more sexy and appealing cover of the sequel.
