Review: Sweet sweet sweet Peter Pan!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 20, 2014
4 Sweet Peter-Pan STARS!!!“All we are is faith and trust and pixie dust”For the past few weeks I’ve been in a rut when it came to books. I was searching for something different out of the sea of books popping up left and right with pretty much the same theme, or annoying characters. I really didn’t care if the book had enough angst (for my liking) I just wanted something that would stand out and keep me entertained without having me cringe or rolling my eyes. When I came across Before He Was Famous I was a bit skeptical at first but something about that boy you once knew and now is some hot-shot rock star or what have you just called me in, and so I caved and went in prepared to encounter the same old same old.Guess what?I was totally swept in to the story of Peter and Pan or better known as Chloe and Noah. I was fascinated with them and annoyed all at the same time at how dense and stubborn they were. But I loved everything about them. I loved their friendship and how involved they had me with their past and their present and how I was looking forward to their future. I loved their inside jokes and their obsession, or connection with Peter Pan and how adorable I found the story revolving around a classic childhood tale. I know it sounds all mushy sweet. It is sweet and endearing that two people who grew up together have so many memories of happy and bittersweet times and how they made and kept a childhood story part of their own. Part of them.But this story is not all fairy dust and colourful flowers. No. We have a boy and a girl who were bound to fall in love but timing my friends is everything. And sometimes fear doubt and other people keep you apart from the person you truly are meant for.The story starts out with Chloe and Noah as young adults, Noah who is one of America’s favorite contestant in a singing competition and Chloe who is his best friend since childhood. Always his biggest fan and supporter since she was five years old. The girl is and always has been his shadow. But we learn early on that something happened that they both never talk about and they carry on their life as if it never affected them.We fallow Noah through stardom and Chloe is as always behind him, following him and documenting his new life on the road. But as close as they get they start falling apart and their past comes creeping back until neither one will be able to keep on ignoring it. And we witness so many obstacles in their way but mostly the biggest obstacle they need to conquer is their own fears. And come clean withe their true feelings!I have to say I was so happy I took a chance on this story as it truly was a breath of fresh air. It’s not your typical now and day romance, it is original and dare I say unique. It had me glued to the pages until early hours of the morning. I hope the author continues their story or gives us updates about them in the follow-up book with some of the supporting cast.“I’m bound to my shadowI’m stick and tied and stuck like glueThis Peter Pan is all grown up a but I’ll never out grow you”