This month’s Saturday Spotlight theme is pirates! This month I have talked about Daughter of the Pirate King by Tricia Levenseller and Worldcaller by Luke Beckstrand. You can find those posts here and here.

This week I am talking about Becoming Hook by Mary Mecham!

Becoming Hook is a villainous retelling of Peter Pan from the perspective of James Hook! Throughout the course of this book we get to see Hook grow up and become a pirate. This book is his origin story, and it is very engaging and interesting. There is a lot of action and adventure, which really draws you into the story. There is also a romance subplot, which is so fun and one of the best parts of the book! These pirates aren’t traditional pirates, and I really enjoyed this viewpoint of pirates. Becoming Hook is an engaging villainous Peter Pan retelling with romance and pirate adventures!

A pirate, a pixie, and a plot to foil Peter Pan…

James Hook never meant to become a pirate, and never dreamed that he would turn against best friend, Peter Pan. Every adventure and eternal youth awaited them… until a pixie exposes a shocking revelation. Tinkerbell’s information forces James into acknowledging that, far from being the benevolent hero he painted himself to be, Peter Pan was kidnapping innocent children.

After accepting the traumatic loss of his hand and of the family he can barely remember, James deserts Pan. In the fight to rescue the Lost Boys, Hook will risk everything, even if that means becoming the most notorious villain in Neverland… or losing the fiery pixie who is stealing his heart.

Can the original Lost Boy vanquish Neverland’s greatest threat?

Book Review: Becoming Hook