Michael Fierce's Reviews > Tigerheart: A Novel

Tigerheart by Peter David is excellent but I almost gave it 4 stars for one reason: this is a book on Peter Pan , Captain Hook , Tinkerbell , Wendy , and a boy very similar to Peter in most respects, named Paul. Only, all the characters names were changed and inferior to their original names, with the exception, maybe, of Fiddlefix, a close second in my book to the name TinkerBell.

I'm guessing that Peter David changed the names because he couldn't get approval by the Peter Pan Estate to release it officially, and/or because the main story is centered on a boy named Paul Dear, he felt he should tell his story without the focus straying to characters everyone knows much better.

I feel this was a mistake. This IS Peter Pan and to say it isn't would be more inaccurate than saying Peter Parker isn't Spider-Man .

It would be unfair, however, for this book to merit anything less than a 5 star rating.

It has it all. Excellent ideas, dialogue, a strong understandable story, action, suspense, many surprises, and it completely pulled me into the world of Neverland .

Peter David exploded into popularity writing the Incredible Hulk comic books (1st issue, #328, official run from #'s 331-359, 361-388, 390-467), to being an accomplished, surefire author of fantasy fiction.

I hope to convince many readers to pick this one up and feel the magic like I did!

*Highly recommend to fans of the original Peter Pan book, Walt Disney's Peter Pan, or Peter Pan (2003) directed by P.J. Hogan, starring Jeremy Sumpter, Rachel Hurd-Wood, and Jason Isaacs.