Peter and the Sword of Mercy by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson

Summary:

The year is 1901--it's been twenty-three years since Peter and the Lost Boys returned from Rundoon. Since then, nobody on the island has grown a day older, and the Lost Boys continue their friendship with the Mollusk tribe, and their rivalry with Captain Hook. Meanwhile in London, Molly has married George Darling and is raising three children: Wendy, Michael, and John. One night a visitor appears at her door; it's James, one of Peter's original Lost Boys. He is now working for Scotland Yard and suspects that the heir to England's throne, Prince Albert Edward, is under the influence of shadow creatures. These shadow creatures are determined to find a secret cache of startstuff which fell to London many centuries ago. The starstuff is hidden in an underground vault which has only one key: the Sword of Mercy, a legendary weapon kept with the Crown Jewels. Molly is determined to help, but when she suddenly goes missing, it is up to her eleven-year-old daughter, Wendy, to keep the starstuff out of the Others' clutches. She has heard her mother's stories of a flying boy named Peter Pan, and he may be her only hope in saving the world from a shadowy doom...

Guess what There are two more books to this series! I was just as excited as you are to figure that out. (Fun fact, as I write this You Can Fly from Peter Pan is stuck in my head and it won't leave!) We get to meet Wendy in this book! I like the Barry and Pearson's Wendy much better than the Wendy in the movie. The Wendy in the movie is just way to naive and helpless for me to really like her as a character. However this Wendy is just like her mother in the first three books, but that is also a problem. I feel like Wendy just wasn't as unique of a character as she should have been because she was constantly in her mothers shadow when it comes to personality. This book is set twenty years after the original trilogy and the 1900's London is amazing! I love how Barry and Pearson once again contrast the Island that hasn't changed a day with this new London. The transition is also very seamless as they are able to explain what has happened in the past twenty years without spending to much time on backstory. There are no plot holes, and this book leaves no loose ends behind. It seems that all the enemies are gone. But there is another book, so maybe Ombra once again has evaded death. 

Rating: 9 out of 10. This whole Ombra not dying thing is getting old, and I wish Wendy was more of her own character but other than that this book was good! 

Content Rating: 1 (8-120). There is a bit more violence than the other books but other than that this book could be a PG movie if it was made into one. (Oh please Disney please! Make these into a movie!)