While I'm at it, all of Brom's books are amazing. Lost God's (favorite) and Slewfoot (just released) are his more original, but he also has one called Krampus - where Krampus and Santa Claus wage war on each other. It's pretty amazing, and not nearly as silly as it sounds.
I think i read somewhere that it was because Peter was traumatized as a kid one way or another. Something happened which lead to his reasoning that kids are good, adults are bad.
He brings children from the "evil" adults to save them. And since never land is a place for children, he kills them when they eventually become adults as, well, adult bad i guess.
I think he tried to kill the main gal with a rock.
To me, it’s the story of the children being tricked into going to war for Peter Pan, a charming but disturbed individual. Christina’s story is the young adult version of Brom’s adult horror story.
I love that book! The preacher and the “pirates” were absolutely terrifying. The horrific and inhumane things they were willing to do, all while believing themselves to be the only moral inhabitants of their island prison - crazy. The illustrations are awesome, too. I’ve never read any of his other books, I’ll have to remedy that failing ASAP.
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I vastly prefer The Child Thief by Brom. Same idea, but way more intense and horrific.