I'm gonna...

I just have to. I'm going to quit Pan by K.R. Thompson. I like different spins on old stories...sometimes. I may later decide to pick it back up, but right now I just can't keep going.

A few weeks ago I saw this meme on Facebook:

I didn't really like it. It was dark, it was disturbing, and it explained a lot. Ugh!

I don't know which came first this meme or Pan, but that is the premise of this book, kind of.

Peter is a "guardian" who helps lead dead children to the afterlife. Tinkerbell is a pixie on Neverland and since no one is there to believe in the pixies they are starting to die. Tink thinks that if Peter came to Neverland and believes in pixies he will save them. If he goes to Neverland he will become real. He goes. They need more help to save the pixies so he starts to bring boys to Neverland using the skills he gained as a guardian. One night he went back to his old house where a woman was putting her boy to bed and he thought it was his mother who had forgotten about him. So he steals the child!

This is where I just have to stop. I don't like Peter, I don't like the premise, and I don't like that it is ruining a childhood favorite movie and a pretty decent original book.

Time to move on to something a little better. I think I will try a book one of my 10th graders read and recommended to me. I'll let you know how it goes.