DNF. 
 I hate to do this, especially as I only have about a quarter of the book left to go, and much of the writing style is really pretty, but good God MAN! Does this thing even HAVE a PLOT? 
 According to the summary, yes. According to the book itself? I'm not actually sure. 
 It starts off really strong and exciting and I'd even say Gwen's character is fairly well developed at the beginning of this book. 
 As a reader I really understood where she was coming from as a teenager leaving childhood behind; Greathouse does a wonderful, outright whimsical job of painting a portrait of heartbreaking nostalgia. But that's also the problem; it's just a portrait made of words. Pretty to mull over (mentally look at) but it's NOT a blooming story! 
 There is a context to the word portraits contained in this book, and we're given hints of a pretty neat double world where magic is real. And there is (allegedly) a war... 
 But you know what? This book could be summed up with "and nothing happens" ALL THE WAY THROUGH! 
 The paper thin "story" really is told THAT passively! 
 Gwen's sister gets kidnaped and she finds out Peter Pan and magic are real...and nothing happens... 
 Gwen goes to Neverland and pals around with some Lost Kids and goes to a ghost pirate ship and goggles at some beautiful mermaids (that also happen to be bumbling idiots and not nearly as scary as the prose suggests they are meant to be) who want a mirror (and Peter doesn't want them to have it for some reason that's never made clear)...and nothing happens.... 
 They meet some Indians...and nothing happens... 
 Peter Pan calls Gwen stupid (repeatedly)...and nothing happens... 
 Speaking of Peter Pan, does he HAVE a personality in this version? Because he has as much charisma here as a cardboard box. No, I'm sorry, that's a smidge offensive to cardboard boxes. 
 But seriously, WHAT are this boy's traits? All he does is look grave and brooding and call Gwen stupid. That's not Peter Pan, that's a 14 year old Edward Cullen! 
 Look, I'm not against books with slower pacing or where characters hang around eating and drinking and gabbing (I love The Chronicles of Narnia and those have been called the "Eat Eat, Walk Walk" books by some) but LITERALLY NOTHING HAPPENS in this darn book. 
 Lewis at least knew when to throw in some battle exposition. And JM Barrie was NEVER this passive in his book version of the Peter Pan play. The Kids might have done a lot of sitting around and stuff, and a great deal of the book may have been whimsy prose, but at least there was an outright villain, at least things HAPPENED. And at least Peter Pan -- little brat though he was -- has a personality in the original. At least we know -- to some extent -- how he felt about Wendy. I don't get any feeling between him and Gwen here. 
 I'm sorry, I'm just going to call it quits and go read something that's more than just a string of pretty words lumped together. 
 It's really a shame too, because Greathouse makes many wonderful points about Teenage years and Political Correctness and stuff, but just...no... I can't keep pushing through this. 
 Not recommended. 
 You know what? I'm not even going to mark this as spoilers because how much of a spoiler is "And nothing happens"? 
 There's nothing TO spoil!