Once I was young, and young forever and always, until I wasn't. Once I loved a boy called Peter Pan. 
 Peter will tell you that this story isn't the truth, but Peter lies. I loved him, we all loved him, 
 but he lies, for Peter wants always to be that shining sun that we all revolve around. He'll do anything to be that sun. 
 Peter will say that I am a villain, that I wronged him, that I never was his friend. 
 But I told you already. Peter lies. 
 Most of us know the story of Peter Pan, the boy who refuses to grow up and spends his days on an island called Never Land, playing with his merry band of lost boys; orphans and unwanted children who Peter saved and brought with him to this magical place, where they, too, never have to grow up and grow old. 
 Here, they go on adventures, hunt, swim with the mermaids, play Battle and go raiding the pirate camp - all for fun! 
 Here, the fun never ends. 
 This, at least, is what Peter tells them. 
 But Peter lies. 
 Christina Henry 
 's retelling of Peter Pan, 
 Lost Boy 
 , tells the story of how Peter Pan met his forever-enemy, Captain Hook, from the point of view of one of the Lost Boys, Jamie. 
 Jamie was the very first boy Peter brought to Never Land. And for many-many-many seasons it was only the two of them. 
 Jamie remembers very little of the Other Place, except for fragments, which he relives in nightmares, of a woman with the bluest eyes and darkest curls, and a smile, from ear to ear, where there should be no smile at all. 
 It all begins when Peter returns from the Other Place with Charlie. A little duckling-boy of about five. Much too young to fend off the Many-Eyed, or go raiding a pirate camp! 
 Peter may be the leader, the one the Lost Boys all follow bravely into new adventures, but Jamie's the one that cares for them, and so he becomes like a big brother to the little duckling, and Charlie takes up much of the older boy's time, something that Peter, who is used to being the center of attention, find intolerable... 
 Christina Henry has previously written 
 The Chronicles of Alice 
 which is a very dark retelling of Alice in Wonderland, and much like the duology about Alice and her adventures, Lost Boy is much darker than what you might remember of Peter Pan. 
 It is filled with sudden twists and unexpected turns and even though it seems almost impossible for the author to be able to tie all the loose ends together, she does, and the result is a remarkable story where heroes and villains aren't at all what they initially seem.