Friday Reads

**BEFORE I START THIS POST I WANT TO SAY I AM VERY LGBTQ FRIENDLY AND SUPPORT TRANS RIGHTS**

This is our bookclub book for the month and I am struggling with it. It is supposed to be a Peter Pan retelling I think and it doesn't deserve to be called a retelling. I could maybe see it in the fan fiction category? But retelling? NO! Nothing is the same but the names....

It's written as a queer friendly book based on Peter Pan. and it's very confusing. For starters, "girl" is spelled "grrrl" I asked my friend who suggested the book why it was spelled like that and it's suppose to be a punk style feminist type word? To describe girls? Personally, I think it's ridiculous  but whatever. 

So I am only about 60 pages in but here is the story so far and why it's the most ridiculous thing ever.

Pan has a circle of Lost Bois (spelled like that for gender reasons), and you don't know until a little later in the book, but they are basically his sex slaves. He talks briefly about owning them and them being submissive but you find out much more later on. Tink is a God Damn Pigeon....A PIEGON?!?! Come the fuck on!!!! No one in the book can fly except Tink b/c she's a fucking pigeon. Pan is a gross old man who has sex slaves who may or may not even be 18....

Wendi, whose a lesbian, lives in a foster home with John Michael, who is a female but is also a butch lesbian, possible transgender? Really?? You had to pick a very male name to describe a lesbian?!? 'The sentences John Michael pushed her hair blah blah' are too much. Pan stalks Wendi briefly before he decides to basically kidnap her. He, who is a fucking GROWN MAN taking CHILDREN, agrees to allow John Michael to come with. Pan places a leather cuff on John Michael, symbolizing he now owns John. But he wants Wendi to be the groups mommy, so I don't think she gets a cuff.

On the journey back to Neverland, which is a run down old factory not a beautiful secret island, you learn more of the story. I'm not sure who the narrator is....but he talks about Pan's ownership of the lost bois and briefly about 'the croc' and Hook. Oh and mermaids. You find out there are mermaids that live in a shack next to Neverland. But don't get too excited, b/c they are all strippers who are strung out on heroin, or 'the crocodile' as it's referenced in the book....

So, just to recap....all the lost bois and mermaids are strung out on heroin and sex slaves to Pan. And here is where the book *really* pissed me off. Hook gets introduced into the book when Pan brings Wendi and John Michael to the 'Jolly Roger' which is an abandoned brownstone, not a super awesome ship. You find out that Pan got Hook addicted to 'the croc' b/c well I guess b/c he's an asshole? Maybe you find out more later. Pan tells Wendi to go on the Neverland without him and John Michael when they hear footsteps outside and are afraid is Hook is about to find them in his house. Wendi finds Neverland and breaks in. Long story short....the main lost boi has decided that Wendi is a spy and Pan didn't really send her....so what does he do?!?! WHAT. DOES. HE. DO?!?!? He shoots her up!!!!! He gives the girl, meant to be his "mommy" fucking heroin!!!!! He of course, realizes too late, that he fucked up. She reveals a cuff on her arm, not the leather one his sex slaves get, so that's how homedude realized he done fucked up!!!!

This book is pissing me off, but I am trying so hard to finish it. I know I know....life is too short to force yourself to read bad books. But here is the thing, my best friend knows the author in some roundabout way and I feel like by not reading the book, I am not supporting my friend, who considers herself gender fluid.....So I am trying. But at this point, I find the book very irritating!!