The Never King by Nikki St. Crowe

 Vicious Lost Boys #1

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🖉Rating: 3.5/5

🖉Spice: 4/5

🖉Plot: 3/5

🖉Primary Genre: Dark Romance

🖉Blurb: 

The first book in the bestselling BookTok viral Vicious Lost Boys series, a Peter Pan-inspired enemies-to-lovers spicy romantasy where the villain gets the girl.

The stories were all wrong—Hook was never the villain.

For two centuries, all of the Darling women have disappeared on their eighteenth birthday. Sometimes they’re gone for only a day, some for as long as a week or a month. But they always return broken.

Now, on the afternoon of my eighteenth birthday, my mother runs around the house, making sure all the windows are barred and the doors locked.

But it’s pointless.

Because when night falls, he comes for me. And this time, the Never King and the Lost Boys aren’t willing to let me go.

NOTE: The Never King is a reimagining of Peter Pan and Wendy. Characters have been aged-up for this darker, grittier version. If you like your enemies-to-lovers dark romance with hot, ruthless, morally gray love interests, you’ll enjoy The Never King and the Vicious Lost Boys series. Expect hate kissing, fighting, bickering, and ‘touch her and I’ll unalive you’ vibes. Book one ends on a cliffhanger.

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🖉My Thoughts:

This book started out really strong and then it really quickly ventured into wtf land. The beginning of the story when I was trying to figure out what was going on really sucked me in and had me intrigued. Once the story brings us to Neverland however, it kind of fails to make any sense to me. I could not connect with the FMC at all. She just wasn't even remotely relatable or a character that you can see yourself as. In addition to that, the guy characters are really vaguely written besides Pan. And they're freaking weird. On top of all of that...it ends in a cliffhanger of sorts which always ticks me off. The smut was decent though so if that's your thing you might be into this. 

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