Review: Love, Tink
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 10 2, 2013
--SPOILER ALERT--Maybe I am, for once, too old for a book. After finishing the first 'episode' of this series it is clear that this series is geared toward children in upper elementary school or lower middle school. But then again, there are plenty of elementary school geared books that I do enjoy as an adult. I am just unsure.The writing style is very simple. Sentences are short, ideas are straightforward. Tink constantly yells "Blink!" like she has Tourettes. The author uses 'blink' as a word to mean curse words. Something that bothers me is that the first sentence is written in past tense, while the rest of Love, Tink is in present tense.Characters are not well developed. We jump into this story with the reader being made to to accept that Tink is madly in love with Peter since the moment she met him, Hook is simply just a bad guy, and Peter is a fifteen year old boy who desperately wants to go home to New York City(WHAT!!!???). All of the faeries are interchangeable; I honestly couldn't tell a single one of them apart. That's is how the characters are and that's it.Nor is the story fleshed out. Things happen for no apparent reason. Why did the Queen of the Faeries leave her husband? What is the green tornado and how did it bring the Lost Boys and the Pirates to Neverland? Why is Tinker instantly in love with Peter? Stuff just happens without so much as an explanation, and the reader is supposed to believed it without a bat of eye.I love fairy tale retellings and retellings in general. I find that for a successful retelling you need to keep the essential plot the same. I have watched mice, dogs, and hot British men portrayals of Sherlock Holmes and all are perfect. But the American show Elementary messed up the formula by trying to tweak with the plot (a buddy-cop show with Watson as a disgraced doctor and Sherlock has friends?). Love, Tink is in the Elementary category. Peter is not a New Yorker or a fifteen year old boy who craves to get back home; he's the eternal lost boy. Hook is more than an evil man who keeps faeries as slaves. Tinkerbell  is more than a clumsy faerie who shouts 'blink'.