Peter and the Shadow Thieves

Ahh! Don't Die Peter! Don't Die! Whew! He made it! This is what I encountered a lot in this book.

Peter and the Shadow Thieves is the second book in the Peter and the Starcatcher's series. I call this series the "before" Peter Pan series because the books are about how Peter Pan became Peter Pan. I think that Peter and the Shadow Thieves is scarier than the first book. In the first book, you are just meeting the characters, so you don't really care what happens to them -- well, maybe you do care a little.

Now, in the second book, you care a lot more about what happens to them. I think that this is the better book out of the two of them. The first book was good, but it didn't have much mystery and scariness in it. In this book, sometimes I was afraid to turn the page. I would think "Please don't let him die!"

In a series, you usually don't have to worry too much that the character will die because you know that the characters have to live to be in the next book. For example, if I hadn't known that Harry Potter was a series, I would have been so freaked out the whole time I read the book because I wouldn't know if he would still be alive by the end of the chapter. In this book, even though I know that they will live because there is another book, I was freaked out when they came to a near death experience.

I would rate this book a 10 for mystery, scariness, and entertainment -- the last page was hysterical, but don't read the last page first!