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I finished this book a while ago but waited to review it because I wasn't quite certain how I felt about it. Had it been possible I'd have given it 3.5 Stars rather than just 3. It is a clever and cleverly written re-telling of the Peter Pan story with a different hero and a different message. It is about the power of the imagination, but also about its limits.

The Peter Pan figure in this work is called "The Boy," and the power of his imagination is immense. It fuels the very existence of "The Anyplace" (this work's version of Neverland) and all the magical creatures who inhabit it. But sheer imagination can fail, as it ultimately does here. The hero of this work is Paul Dear, who has encountered reality in some of its grimmer aspects. His baby sister has died. His mother's grief at her loss causes her to neglect Paul and ultimately leads to the failure of her marriage. And Paul wants to fix it all. Through his dreams he too has encountered the power of imagination, and he enters its realm to find solutions. This book does a beautiful job of balancing the contrasting powers of imagination and reality and weighing them each against the other. And Paul ultimately discovers that he needs both to succeed in his quest.

This work is clever and cleverly written. A previous reviewer pointed out that the mode of the book is more that of a story-teller than that of a novelist, and I agree with her completely. All the authorial intrusion into the narrative, his comments on the meaning of it all, his suggestions as to what may happen or must happen next are the devices of a story teller. They amuse, instruct, and interpret for the reader. They also lead to my problems with the novel. Essentially it seemed to me just to go on too long. Ultimately when the authorial voice intruded into the narrative yet again, I began to feel "Enough already." Also I was never quite certain who the novel's intended audience actually was. While I loved the working out of Paul's relationship with his Tiger in the Anyplace and what it had to say about imagination, I found some of the action that took place there a bit tedious for an adult reader. On the other hand it this really appropriate for children? While children can in general accept any amount of mayhem if couched in imaginative terms, the death of the baby sister, the changes in Paul's mother, the failure of his parents' marriage seemed far too real and far too grim for the more sensitive children I know.


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Tigerheart Peter David 9780345501592 Books Reviews

I got a copy of this book when it first came out, and it hit me in a way that no other book has. It is seriously wonderful.

It's not just some re-telling of the Peter Pan story. It's a complete re-imagining! And, the way that it's written is incredibly engaging. The book messes with you the whole time.
Enjoyable. Could picture myself reading it to a group of young children with all the proper inflections.
I kept trying but I wasn't able to finish this. After 4 tries and I wasn't able to stay with it long enough to make it out of chapter 1. I feel like a failure, it isn't too many books that can beat me, but life is to short to continue on with this book.
It begins in a interesting way but I'm not convinced the world needs another Peter Pan retelling, particularly not one from the perspective of "is it speculative or mental illness?" This book was just not for me.
There is nothing better than a weekend with lots of reading time, especially when the books you spend your time reading turn out to be terrific. I don't give out 5 stars to books very often. I've read 54 books this year, and Tigerheart by Peter David is the 5th book I consider a 5-star read. It is based on Barrie's Peter Pan, but it's not a sequel or a prequel - more of Peter Pan in an alternate universe. A re-telling of the story. David was gutsy to take on one of the most beloved children's stories of all time - it could have failed in a big, big way. Fotunately for him, it works, and works brilliantly.

This book is everything you could possibly want in a novel adventure, magic, love, danger, truth, tragedy, and triumph. The best thing is that this is a children's novel in the same way that the Harry Potter books are "children's books." By which I mean that anyone who loves a good story will appreciate this book.

Tigerheart is the story of Paul Dear. Paul's father has regaled him with stories about The Boy and his magical land, Anyplace, where The Boy fights pirates and saves Indian princesses and has a pixie for a sidekick. When Paul's new baby sister dies, his mother changes, and Paul is determined to find a new baby sister for her - in Anyplace. His adventures with The Boy, Fiddlefix, Gwenny, the White Tiger, and the Vagabonds demand more of him than he ever imagined, and make more of him than he ever thought he could be.

After reading the first chapter, I knew I wanted to read this aloud to the kids, but I needed to read it quickly so I could comment on the book's forum for Del Rey Books. I will definitely be coming back to it in the next few months so that I can share it with the kids. The author's style is not as much narrator as it is storyteller, complete with asides and advice to the readers. This is all done delightfully tongue-in-cheek, and makes for many laugh-out-loud moments.

I hope that this won't be Peter David's only adventure in Anyplace.
This is arguably the best retelling of Peter Pan ever. Its like looking at the story you always knew, but slightly shifted just enough to keep you guessing. The writing style, Victorian bedtime story, suits this story very well. Peter david touches very well on the theme of growing up and the transition from childhood to adulthood, quentessential to the peter pan story, very well. Cannot recommend this book enough.
I'm not in love with the whole Peter Pan mythology anyway, but I thought I'd try this retelling. It's written in an annoying style that rambles on and after a while became pretentious and condescending IMHO. Just couldn't relate to any of the characters - they were all rather lacking in charm. I really don't like leaving a book unfinished, but after the halfway point I just could not stand this any longer. Deleting it from my collection.
I finished this book a while ago but waited to review it because I wasn't quite certain how I felt about it. Had it been possible I'd have given it 3.5 Stars rather than just 3. It is a clever and cleverly written re-telling of the Peter Pan story with a different hero and a different message. It is about the power of the imagination, but also about its limits.

The Peter Pan figure in this work is called "The Boy," and the power of his imagination is immense. It fuels the very existence of "The Anyplace" (this work's version of Neverland) and all the magical creatures who inhabit it. But sheer imagination can fail, as it ultimately does here. The hero of this work is Paul Dear, who has encountered reality in some of its grimmer aspects. His baby sister has died. His mother's grief at her loss causes her to neglect Paul and ultimately leads to the failure of her marriage. And Paul wants to fix it all. Through his dreams he too has encountered the power of imagination, and he enters its realm to find solutions. This book does a beautiful job of balancing the contrasting powers of imagination and reality and weighing them each against the other. And Paul ultimately discovers that he needs both to succeed in his quest.

This work is clever and cleverly written. A previous reviewer pointed out that the mode of the book is more that of a story-teller than that of a novelist, and I agree with her completely. All the authorial intrusion into the narrative, his comments on the meaning of it all, his suggestions as to what may happen or must happen next are the devices of a story teller. They amuse, instruct, and interpret for the reader. They also lead to my problems with the novel. Essentially it seemed to me just to go on too long. Ultimately when the authorial voice intruded into the narrative yet again, I began to feel "Enough already." Also I was never quite certain who the novel's intended audience actually was. While I loved the working out of Paul's relationship with his Tiger in the Anyplace and what it had to say about imagination, I found some of the action that took place there a bit tedious for an adult reader. On the other hand it this really appropriate for children? While children can in general accept any amount of mayhem if couched in imaginative terms, the death of the baby sister, the changes in Paul's mother, the failure of his parents' marriage seemed far too real and far too grim for the more sensitive children I know.