Hooked: The Fractured Fairy Tale and TikTok Sensation (Never After)
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From BookTok sensation Emily McIntire comes a dark and delicious fractured fairy tale reimagining of Peter Pan.
He wants revenge, but he wants her more…
James has always had one agenda: destroy his enemy, Peter Michaels. When Peter’s twenty-year-old daughter Wendy shows up in James’s bar, he sees his way in. Seduce the girl and use her for his revenge. It’s the perfect plan, until things in James’s organization begin to crumble. Suddenly, he has to find the traitor in his midst, and his plan for revenge gets murkier as James starts to see Wendy as more than just a pawn in his game.
Wendy has been cloistered away most of her life by her wealthy cold father, but a spontaneous night out with friends turns into an intense and addictive love affair with the dark and brooding James. As much as she knows James is dangerous, Wendy can’t seem to shake her desire for him. But as their relationship grows more heated and she learns more about the world he moves in, she finds herself unsure if she’s falling for the man known as James or the monster known as Hook.
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Additional information
| Publisher | Bloom Books (20 Sept. 2022) |
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| Language | English |
| Paperback | 416 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 1728278341 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1728278346 |
| Dimensions | 12.9 x 2.5 x 19.8 cm |
by nyoung
It was amazing do not get me wrong but its one of the worst in the whole series ( in my opinion) , i can most certainly say that it was full of deep dark complex characters and it had so many twist and turns. 3.5/5 it would have been a 5/5 but after reading her other ones in the never after series you can see that her writing improved so much!!.
by For Old Times’ Sake
Hooked is an excellent dark, twisted contemporary re-imagining of Hook’s story (from Peter Pan). I thought it was refreshing, original, and an ingenious page-turner.
Hook is a delicious anti-hero, twisted and brooding, lethal and powerful, living in the criminal underworld, and Wendy is the sweet daughter of Hook’s arch nemesis. There are so many nuggets in the book that nod to the original story, yet this is a completely different novel, and the ending was unexpected and gripping.
The love story between Hook and Wendy was spicy, dark, and intense. I found Hooked to be an entertaining, engaging, and absorbing romantic suspense story. Highly recommended from me.
This is a standalone book, told in dual pov.
by Craig
What a great read a little bit of a slow start but once past it, you wont want to put it down.
by Amazon Customer
A great book. The character development is brill. And if I didn’t already have a crush on hook from when I was younger, I definitely do now.
by Kayleigh
This book is so good and an addictive read i couldn’t put it down! Highly recommend this to everyone! Please read????
by Dani
I’m not really sure, like I mean I wanted to love this, the premise sounded brilliant, it just wasn’t executed very well and all sort of fell apart.
So from reading all the reviews on Goodreads, everyone loves this book because of all the smut and to be fair there was some amount of smut in this book and woah is it on fire at times, but for me, I just couldn’t get into it and love it. Every second page it was like reading a porn movie, the plot seemed to get lost in amongst all the sex scenes. Like don’t get me wrong I love smut scenes in a book as much as the next girl, however I also like it when there is some sort of plot in amongst all of the sex!! And we’ll like I said the plot of this one got slightly lost.
The few things I did actually like
James/Hooks character, dudes I fell in love with James character from the very first page, he is totally bad to the bone.
The writing style wasn’t the worst, it was a quick and easy read that didn’t take very long to finish.
The few twists and little plot throughout the story weren’t all bad, they were somewhat decent for the most part, if not slightly predictable in places.
Overall it wasn’t a bad read, just not a great one either.
by Gabriella Madeline Lee
Well… this is my first read by Emily McIntire. To say the least I will be reading more by this author as I plan to continue to read the Never After Series!
At first I didn’t know what to think of ‘Hooked’, I found the beginning to be rather slow and not as engaging… (or maybe that was just me as I was in another one of my reading slumps.) However, around the first 100 pages it started to pick up and then at the half way mark the action came and didn’t stop. Which I appreciated.
It was an intriguing read, I enjoyed it more than I expected to. James and Wendy delivered immensely.
The book contained many unexpected turns that I didn’t see coming, although there was one plot twist that I speculated from the moment james first met Jon. If you know you know. *winking face*
James and Wendy’s relationship was twisted… in all the right ways of course. Their feelings for one another grew fast and strong. Although, if you would have asked James he would have denied it and probably stabbed you with it hooked blade.
Both of them shown character development as James was set and consumed with revenge for his family; tormented by his past with his uncle, but in the end it didn’t really play out the way he had hoped, he grew because for him he realised it wasn’t everything… No Wendy was!
And Wendy… out very own Wendy darling. In my opinion, she was the character with the greatest development. At the start she was in the innocent girl stuck in her father’s shadow, by the end she learned to speak up for herself and what she wanted. Not being tied down by the perspectives of others and perceiving herself as capable and strong.
This re-imagining of Peter Pan was clever and intriguingly intelligent in how all the little details can be tied back to the original story. Some details where changed a little to fit this narrative but they are there nonetheless and done in a way which is most appreciative.