![]() When he first returns, he goes straight to Captain Hook for a (very homoerotic) fight scene. Peter’s conception of boyhood is intimately tied to his obsession with war. Austin Chant’s Peter Darling confronts toxic masculinity in its examination of Peter’s conflict between boyhood and manhood. Then, throw in a fantastically empathetic rendering of Captain Hook, some enemies-friends-lovers romance, and a nuanced exploration of what it means to be a man. It’s a transgender retelling of Peter Pan wherein Peter returns to Neverland after spending ten years away at his home in London, only to find that Neverland and the Lost Boys aren’t all he remembered them to be. ![]() ![]() It’s finally time for my first review of a book centering a trans man as the protagonist: Peter Darling by Austin Chant, a trans author of romantic and speculative fiction. ![]()
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