Peter and the Shadow Thieves by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson

Summary:

"In this riveting and adventure-packed follow-up to Peter

and the Starcatchers, we discover Peter leaving the relative safety of Mollusk Island-along with his trusted companion Tinker Bell-for the cold, damp streets of London. On a difficult journey across the sea, he and Tink discover the dark and deadly, slithering part-man/part-creature Lord Ombra. It seems that the dreaded Ombra has a variety of mysterious powers including the ability to make shadows disappear. When Peter reaches London, he sets out to find the indomitable Molly. Together they must combat Ombra's terrible forces to both protect the Starcatchers and the treasured starstuff and most importantly to rescue Molly's mother from the clutches of evil." 

Peter and his friends are back! The same evil from the last book is still threatening to overthrow everything, and Barry and Pearson have packed this book with as much action and adventure as the first. The authors do a great job at making the antagonist scary, but not scary enough that it will give younger readers nightmares. We get to see a lot more of Tinkerbell in this book and she’s just as sassy and temperamental as the Tinkerbell the world has come to know and love. I love the contrast between London and Mollusk Island in this book, it’s interesting to see how the ways of life are so different as they collide. Sometimes the second book in a series is dry and dull, but the second book in this series is in some ways even better than the first! A big part of it is that a lot of the backstory of Peter was taken care of in the first book, so we get to see him fighting the evil with Molly and the rest of the Starcatchers. Again, if you like Peter Pan and Tinkerbell read this book!

Rating: 10 out of 10. If anything, I enjoyed this book more than the first one!

Content Rating: 1 (8-120). This book is very clean, still some mild violence but that is it!