Second to the Right (The Neverland Chronicles Book 1)

4 4 out of 5 stars | 2,966 ratings

Price: 4.99

Last update: 10-29-2024


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Gwendolyn Mary Darling Carlisle’s young life has been a saga of misfortune. After a tragic accident unexpectedly took her parents, Gwen finds herself the sole caregiver for her ailing sister. It's her eighteenth birthday. With responsibilities weighing heavy, she struggles to find something worth celebrating. Everything in her life has fallen apart. That is, until she finds a mysterious man in her bedroom.

Peter Pan has returned to the Darling estate. Only the boy from Neverland, who refused to grow up, has in fact grown into an alluring man. It’s time for spring cleaning and he’s determined to bring a descendant of Wendy back to Neverland with him.

Gwen is swept off her feet and across the Veil. Engulfed in a fantastical world of mermaids, Fae, and Peter’s new band of Lost Boys. As she gives herself over to the wonder of Neverland and the affections of Peter and his Lost Boys, she finds herself living out hedonistic fantasies that she could have only ever dreamed about. But not everything is as it seems in Neverland. Her memories of home, and her beloved sister are fading. A treasured family heirloom, a locket with its own ties to Neverland, is the only tether to the sister she’d left behind and the life she is obligated to return to. The fairytales she’d heard as a child only hinted at the truth. Neverland bears some dark secrets.


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Amazon Customer
5.0 out of 5 stars If you love Peter Pan Tales and RH, Get this book!
Reviewed in the United States on May 17, 2024
I've always loved Peter Pan. Here recently, I've made it my mission to start an adult Peter Pan Collection. I stumbled upon this book by accident. I had never read anything by this author before, but I found the story easy to read and I was pulled in immediately. I planned on taking my time to read it because I hate when I binge an entire book and am left with nothing. However, that did not happen. I found myself picking up this book anytime I had a free moment. I was reading this in the school pick-up line as I waited for my kid to get out of school, and I was sucked into another world. The rude car (j/k) behind me had to honk when the line started to move because I completely forgot what I was supposed to be doing. Just FYI, I'm usually the rude car that just wants to get through that crazy long line. So saying that I was taken out of my car and thrown into Neverland with these characters is saying a lot! I've already ordered book two and I can not wait for it to come in. Not that it really matters, but the covers are beautiful!! I cannot wait to have the whole series on my shelf. If you love steamy, fantasy RH, and if you've always been a Peter Pan fan, pick up this book! Not only will it help you escape the boring and mundane things like sitting in the school pick-up line, but it will deliver you straight to the Neverland you've always wished to escape to.
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5.0 out of 5 stars If you love Peter Pan Tales and RH, Get this book!
Reviewed in the United States on May 17, 2024
I've always loved Peter Pan. Here recently, I've made it my mission to start an adult Peter Pan Collection. I stumbled upon this book by accident. I had never read anything by this author before, but I found the story easy to read and I was pulled in immediately. I planned on taking my time to read it because I hate when I binge an entire book and am left with nothing. However, that did not happen. I found myself picking up this book anytime I had a free moment. I was reading this in the school pick-up line as I waited for my kid to get out of school, and I was sucked into another world. The rude car (j/k) behind me had to honk when the line started to move because I completely forgot what I was supposed to be doing. Just FYI, I'm usually the rude car that just wants to get through that crazy long line. So saying that I was taken out of my car and thrown into Neverland with these characters is saying a lot! I've already ordered book two and I can not wait for it to come in. Not that it really matters, but the covers are beautiful!! I cannot wait to have the whole series on my shelf. If you love steamy, fantasy RH, and if you've always been a Peter Pan fan, pick up this book! Not only will it help you escape the boring and mundane things like sitting in the school pick-up line, but it will deliver you straight to the Neverland you've always wished to escape to.
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QsMoni
4.0 out of 5 stars Peter Pan, Neverland and smut lol
Reviewed in the United States on April 13, 2023
This is a lot like a Peter Pan themed fan fiction if Wendy (Gwen in this case) got to do reverse harem with Peter and his Lost Boys.

It is relatively faithful in a lot of respects to what most movies show Neverland to be. Mermaids, Pirates, fairies etc...I expected this to be a dark romance for some reason but it was not. The male characters are mostly sweet and doting and protective from the first moment on...I will say I was confused a little about their age range as they are described as having grown out of childhood and having grown up appearances one moment, but the way they speak and interact seems pretty innocent and childlike at times...only for them to also be sexually experienced and aware. This made me kind of struggle to form a firm image in my mind for who they really were. Our main female character is 18, works at a Cafe or diner and is alone in the world except for her older sister who is currently dying of cancer. She's not an innocent, she's not weak, she's not stupid. But she also doesn't seem very deep...she accepts and rolls with everything and everyone who comes her way with a nonchalance that I found baffling at times. I also felt conflicted about the whole reverse harem thing because more than one of the boys involved made it clear they wanted her to be theirs exclusively and were only tolerating the arrangement because they wanted her enough to take anything she would give them. That type of reverse harem dynamic tends to throw me off as a reader.

All in all this was nicely written. If you want a smut filled fairytale this is a pretty decent one. It does end on a cliffhanger...it's apparently book 1 of a two book series.
Soni
3.0 out of 5 stars What?
Reviewed in the United States on August 7, 2024
This was, interesting, Peter Pan with smut. Not really for me. I really couldn’t connect with Gwen, she was too naive and gullible.
samson
5.0 out of 5 stars HOLY SMOKES
Reviewed in the United States on August 3, 2024
This book did NOT disappoint! I absolutely devoured this book and it has me wanting more. The Lost Boys and Peter are exceptional and so sexy, I need more!!! On to book two!
Shaina Glassman
4.0 out of 5 stars Great retelling, all romance.
Reviewed in the United States on November 26, 2023
This is a great retelling of the classic. It’s heavy on the romance and spice so if that’s your thing, grab it. It was a really fun read! Great imagery and storytelling. The reason I’m only giving it 4 stars is that there would be no story if you took out the romance. All in all, you definitely feel the magic. Lots of tension, why choose, great spice.
Sarah_Jean989
5.0 out of 5 stars Second to the Right
Reviewed in the United States on August 15, 2024
This book is everything I love in a retelling. Spice, drama, plot twists, and shattering heart break. This book has pulled me out of a very long reading slump. So captivating, T.S. Kinley has a way with words that made me forget that I was reading. Hand down 5 stars, cannot wait to devour the rest.
Paige W.
3.0 out of 5 stars Good story
Reviewed in the United States on May 23, 2024
It's was a pretty good story overall. I thought Gwen was very whiny and clingy. I'm hoping she changes in the next couple of books.
Alyssa Zaifert
5.0 out of 5 stars Obsessed to put it lightly!
Reviewed in the United States on July 6, 2024
I absolutely ate this book up! Ever since I was a little girl l've loved Peter Pan. I've dreamed of going to Neverland and being with the lost boys. This story is the version my adult heart has wanted and needed!!!
I was emerged into the world that my childhood knew and loved so quickly and easily. I almost instantly fell hard for Pan and his Lost Boys. (Tripp and Ryder are my favorite if you know you know) From mermaids to pirates I thought I knew everything to expect but holy crap was I wrong! I was hot and feeling emotions in all the best ways possible. And then absolutely shocked, and confused, and hanging on every last page to find out what, why, how?! - - Because I can't spoil anything but it was that good! And now why am I craving Hook in so many amazing new ways!?
This is a series I found randomly via a reel and I know it will now live rent free in my head…and I am not mad about it. I cannot get enough of this story and I am eager to go on to the next book! I actually begged my husband just to buy me the collectors edition right off the bat because I couldn't not have it with how much I fell in love with book one! This has endless out of 5 stars from me!!!!

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