This book was not nearly as good as the first. The first had all of the world-building to give it at least SOME substance/story. This book was mainly smut held together by the thinnest of plots.

The entire time they were waiting to get Pan his shadow from when it ran away and hid on Hook’s side of the island. In the meantime they slept together in a number of combinations and scenarios. While Pan getting his shadow should have been the dramatic highlight of the book (minus that ending surprise which I will talk about shortly), it felt like the Darling landing Vane was hyped up more. I had actually decided that I was going to stop with this book and not continue on UNTIL that dramatic change of events at the end. It was just too much smut and too little substance, despite the still intriguing concept of the vicious lost boys. 

BUT THEN! But then Darling got the dark shadow. As soon as that happened I knew I couldn’t stick with my previous decision to stop with this book because clearly I need to know how that turns out. So onward I press…

that ending was enough for me to give it a second star. For a majority of the book it was only going to get 1.