Dave Barry

Peter and the Shadow Thieves

Ridley Pearson

Christine

Q&D: Cute sequel in this Peter Pan series. We get to see old and new characters as Peter once again helps the Starcatchers keep the starstuff away from the Others, who this time have a new helper/leader. Cute, funny, with a nice nod to the original writer of Peter Pan, it didn't seem to drag on as long as the first book as there was more happening with several plots weaving together here.

Abigail F

Peter and the Shadow Thieves (Disney Editions)

Gillian Rose

Even better than the first! I found Ombra particularly creepy. The plot was extremely strong. Loved meeting George Darling and the J.M. Barrie nod was cute. My one complaint was the Hook stuff on Never Land. While I understand it will tie in later, Ombra was villain enough on his own.

Kirsten Simkiss

This series is absolutely charming. It's just the right amount of faithful to the original story and just the right amount original. It also doesn't belittle its readers for being young which I absolutely love. Nothing drives me crazy more than a book assuming the reader is unintelligent. This book is also setting up important building blocks to get to the story we all know and love, introducing George Darling, insinuating that perhaps Molly will be Wendy Darling's mother and that there's a future generation to come.

I'm interested to see how things will develop with the Lost Boys on the island, seeing as they should be aging. Peter seems to be having more ease with realizing, "Oh, man. Everyone else is aging but me." It's a sobering thing for any immortal to come to terms with, let alone someone who's still a child in mind and body.

I thought the book's concept for Lord Ombra, the villain, was pretty awesome to be honest. There may be nothing to fear but fear itself, but I feel like a living shadow should get an honorable mention. You knew from the title of the book what his skill set was going to be. I loved that he was more ghost than human, though I have a thousand questions as to how someone gets that way. Corrupted starstuff perhaps? I'm interested to see if we ever see more like him, though that might get to be a bit repetitive if we do. Still, Lord Ombra was a great villain.

Also, props to the book for coming full circle at the end. That was a great return to normality chapter.

Ultimately, I don't think you can get away with not reading the previous book before reading this one since they make a lot of references to it. However, it's totally worth reading, so I recommend it.

Jeni Enjaian

Once again I highly enjoyed this book. The only downside is that somehow I didn't download the last disc of the book so just at the climactic moment the narration cut off. Oops.

Jim Dale's narration, again, is magnificent. I wish he narrated every book that I read. I would read a whole lot more than I already do. :)

I loved Peter's return to England and the introduction of Tinker Bell, great character missing from the first book. Of course, the site of the Return being Stonehenge did not surprise me at all. In fact, the fact that all the characters put it together until so late in the book... oh well :D


I still absolutely loved this book and continue to highly recommend the book and the series.

Lauren Robinson

Petar Toushkov

Zachary Cleek

Rachel Kanyid

Kristen Gombas

In the thrilling sequel to Peter and the Starcatchers, Peter and Tinker Bell must travel to the mean streets of Victorian London on a mission to save the world from the forces of darkness. But can they survive the sinister Shadow Thieves?

Peter and the Shadow Thieves

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