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Second Star - Alyssa B. Sheinmel
Second Star
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A twisty story about love, loss, and lies, this contemporary oceanside adventure is tinged with a touch of dark magic as it follows seventeen-year-old Wendy Darling on a search for her missing surfer brothers. Wendy’s journey leads her to a mysterious hidden cove inhabited by a tribe of young... show more
A twisty story about love, loss, and lies, this contemporary oceanside adventure is tinged with a touch of dark magic as it follows seventeen-year-old Wendy Darling on a search for her missing surfer brothers. Wendy’s journey leads her to a mysterious hidden cove inhabited by a tribe of young renegade surfers, most of them runaways like her brothers. Wendy is instantly drawn to the cove’s charismatic leader, Pete, but her search also points her toward his nemesis, the drug-dealing Jas. Enigmatic, dangerous, and handsome, Jas pulls Wendy in even as she's falling hard for Pete. A radical reinvention of J. M. Barrie's classic tale, Second Star is an irresistible summer romance about two young men who have yet to grow up—and the troubled beauty trapped between them.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN: 9780374382674 (0374382670)
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
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R-r-read
R-r-read rated it
I finished this book a week ago, and have been trying this entire time to figure out exactly what to say about it. As I start to write this review, I realize that is the entire issue: this book made me feel nothing. I did not feel connected to any of the characters, the plot was not engaging. The fa...
The Reading Perusals of Rose Summers
The Reading Perusals of Rose Summers rated it
2.0 Review: Second Star by Alyssa B. Sheinmel
Initial reaction: I can't type all my reaction to this via tablet, but I wish this had been better. It had good ideas, even had moments of compelling writing. But the cliches and ending ruined this for me.Full review:Alyssa B. Sheinmel's "Second Star" is one of those books that have the "great premi...
A Reading Vocation
A Reading Vocation rated it
3.5 Book 41/100: Second Star by Alyssa B. Sheinmiel
There were so many things I really liked about this book. I loved the idea of the Peter Pan story being retold with the lost boys as a group of runaways hiding out in abandoned houses on the coast of California with surfing standing in for "flying." And this setting was so incredibly vivid -- the st...
AbibliophobicTendencies♥
AbibliophobicTendencies♥ rated it
3.0 Second Star
Second Star is a VERY different spin of the classic Peter Pan. I say very different because it has very few similarities to the Actual Peter Pan story. So if you are looking for a Young Adult retelling of Peter Pan that has tons of similarities, this book is not it. Wendy Darling is a 17 year old hi...
ashwednesday
ashwednesday rated it
2.0 A Barren Field of Fucks
”Some of us have only ever found home when we’re on water. Some of us are always waiting for the next wave.” My face was in a perpetual state of a frown while reading this book that I feel like sending the Botox bill to the publishers. Seventeen year-old Wendy Darling has a bright future ahead of he...
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