When I first saw the cover for ALIAS HOOK, I sat up a little straighter. When I first read the synopsis for it, I was practically drooling.
So of course, when a copy arrived in my mailbox, I was deadly anxious. Because my expectations were sky high, and the ARC was sent by the author herself. So yes. I was very, very nervous.
But Lisa Jensen clearly knows what she’s doing.
ALIAS HOOK is a masterpiece, and I don’t say that lightly. The prose is painstakingly beautiful, giving off a feeling that can only be described as antique. Captain Hook is from an era before ours, after all. From page one to the end, I was full of wonder, excitement.
Because ALIAS HOOK is a fairytale. A fairytale meant for the classics. A fairytale narrated by the so-called villain, and it is glorious.
I’m a huge fan of Captain Hook. Maybe not the permed Disney version, but most definitely the Once Upon a Time version. From the moment Stella is first introduced in ALIAS HOOK, my Captain Swan (from OUaT) feelings began to bounce all over the place.
ALIAS HOOK puts a twist on the Peter Pan tale. Pan is pure evil, in the eyes of Hook. We learn the story of how James Benjamin Hookbridge becomes a pirate, how he ends up in Neverland, and how he loses his hand. We learn a lot of things from Hook’s past while moving on with the current story, and I loved that.
The ending was my most anticipated moment. Will the villain finally get his happy ending? Or is sacrifice the only redemption a villain can receive? I wasn’t expecting the story to end as it did, and while it was sort of bittersweet, it was expertly done.
As Stella would say, ALIAS HOOK is absobloodylutely good. In Hook’s words: it’s a buggering must-read.
A little note: I wouldn’t call it fully fit for the YA audience as there are some mature instances. But nothing too graphic.
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