4.5 stars 
 Tiger Lily is a Peter Pan retelling told from Tinker Belle's perspective. It takes place before Wendy enters Peter's life, when he met and fell in love with a native of Neverland named Tiger Lily. 
 First off, I loved the narration style. It's told through the eyes of a faerie, someone who is small and often unnoticed by others, exceptionally curious and observant, a little jealous, and fiercely loyal. Tinker Belle serves as a unique narrator because she cannot speak; instead, she acquires knowledge of others by watching them and reading their thoughts. This allows readers to gain access into several of the characters' backstories and true thoughts, despite their actions and words towards each other. It also gives readers the ability to keep tabs on multiple characters at once as Tink flies across Neverland to various destinations. 
 Though Tinker Belle mostly observed the characters, when she interacted with them, it felt very refreshing: 
 "She was at the bottom of the rise when she saw the smoke. I didn't fly ahead of her. I stuck to her shoulder, and in her state she never knew I was there." 
 "But suddenly I felt the water change underneath me, and her hands scooped me up as I caught my breath. She looked at me directly and without a change of expression, then quickly laid me against her shoulder, careful to spread my wings flatly against her." 
 "I flew over to land on his shoulder, to try to warn him. He recognized me, but flicked me away." 
 The other thing I loved about this story was the world. Neverland is a location that most people are already familiar with, and the author did a wonderful job of maintaining its original characteristics and quirkiness. But she also expanded on it and made it so much more intricate and beautiful than any other version I've read/seen before. I've always found Neverland to be very odd and somewhat unsettling, but Anderson made it magical and enchanting. 
 I also really enjoyed how Anderson narrowed in on the darker, more lonely side of Neverland and its inhabitants. It doesn't focus on grand sword fights and pixie dust and battles with crocodiles; instead, it reveals the quiet heart ache and brokenness of the people who live there, along with the consequences and fear of growing up. I found that to be much more intriguing and memorable than the traditional happy ending we're all used to. 
 I ended up bumping off half a star because I wasn't the biggest fan of the writing style. At the beginning especially, it seemed very choppy and kind of disconnected. It took me awhile before I adjusted to it, and even after that, there were a couple of times where the sentence flow disrupted my reading, and I had to go back and reread some sentences. Besides that, though, I was completely captivated by this curious story.