Rawr.

Finished Tigerheart by Peter David. It's a re-imagining of the Peter Pan story. In the past couple years there's been so many attempts at retelling the story, I wonder why that is? Disney published a trilogy (Peter and the Starcatchers), there was an "official" sequel and now David has given it a shot. I was intrigued because the protagonist isn't Peter Pan or Wendy (or Wendy's relation), instead the main character is Paul, a boy who can talk to animals and fairies.

My first question is this: who is this book marketed towards? You would think young adult, no question, but it seems like this isn't the case. It's just a New York Times' bestseller and not shelved in the children's section. The book is dark in places, but so was the original tale. Yet, the narrator (the teller of the tale, perhaps the author) addresses the readers occassionally and the narrator seems to think that the readers are children or parents reading to children...

Which brings up another point of interest, the narrator addresses the readers frequently and brings up the fact that he is telling a story. Sometimes it seemed awkward, but most of the times it worked and lent a comforting style to the book.

Now I'm reading The Overnight by Ramsey Campbell. A little repetitive, it's all grubbiness and muffled voices and gray fog and dark shadows. But, in a bookshop. What's most interesting isn't the horror aspect of the story, but the workers' dynamics. American versus British, class differences, gender politics, sexual politics. I think the book would work a lot better if it focused on those conflicts than the horror. Whatever is lurking in the fog just makes the tale muddled, there's just too much going on. I'm nearing the end of the book, but I'm in a rut. It'll be an effort to finish.