Never Ever
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
A fantastical adventure where a thrilling escape from adulthood slowly reveals that eternal youth isn’t always a never-ending party.
“An edgy thrill ride . . . a cleverly repackaged Peter Pan for teens, with characters and subplots that beg for a sequel.”—School Library Journal
“A shocking twist awaits the reader, giving this just enough to separate it from other Peter Pan offshoots.”—Booklist
She doesn’t believe in fairy tales. He doesn’t believe in growing up.
The night Wylie Dalton and her brothers sneak out of their Manhattan apartment to go to a rooftop party, she’s looking forward to one last night of freedom before her brother Joshua goes to juvie the next day. Then Wylie meets Phinn on the dance floor, and sparks aren’t the only things that fly. Soon she and her brothers are soaring over the city, and Wylie finds herself falling for the mysterious, charming stranger.
Phinn whisks them away to a remote island populated by a small group of teenagers who can fly and don’t age past seventeen, where life is one endless party. But when her new friends start mysteriously disappearing, Wylie discovers there’s more to this world than staying young forever. Someone on the island has a secret. Someone is lying. And someone will betray her. . . .
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On her 17th birthday, Wylie Dalton sneaks out of her Upper East Side apartment to attend a party with her younger brothers, Joshua and Micah. Disillusioned about her parents' marriage, Wylie prefers to avoid thinking about them or about Joshua's imminent sentencing for a hit-and-run accident she caused. So when she meets the "irrefutably beautiful" Phinn at the party, and he teaches the siblings to fly, she's inclined to forgive him for sailing them all to a magical island while the Daltons were asleep. They can stay forever on Minor Island, where none of the residents age past 17, but at what cost? Despite a nifty twist toward the cliffhanger ending, this Peter Pan update leaves much to be desired, from the regressive romantic relationship between acquiescent Wylie and chauvinist Phinn to the slow pace. Saedi brings an impressive background in TV writing to her first novel, but the plot winds up an awkward mishmash of wish-fulfillment fantasy and angsty drama. Ages 12 up.
