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Peter: How Peter became Pan
For eight millennia, the Pans of the Great Self have protected the powers of creation and the fabric of reality itself. As the first child pan in millennia, Peter fights for life in a firestorm of personal and political power struggles. Trapped on a remote, man-eating island with his pixie attaché, Tinker Belle, he races to find his missing parents, build an army of bestial children and fight off a desperate psychic bent on taking his powers for a virulent, transcontinental insurgency.
Peter must face the harsh realities that his parents may be dead, the Unionists now come for him, and the full responsibility of a mantle he barely understands lies on him, alone. If waves of enemy mages or Neverland’s monstrous beasts don’t kill the young pan, the psychotic lost boy will.
SYNOPSIS
After surviving a deadly rout, Lord Pan of Eden William Baley, flees to a remote, man-eating island with his wife April and son Peter, chased by virulent insurgency who have stolen the powers of creation to tip the scales of revolution against human nations across Pangea. Bent on rule of men for their own good, Unionists have taken Eden, its allies and now pursue the Pan for his mantle, the powerful magic that gives him long life, the ability to communicate with all life and the key to vast international trade and military accords.
When William's attempt to give Peter the mantle goes wrong, Peter wakes alone with his father's pixie attache Tinker Belle on an island beset by dangerous agents led by a powerful psychic. Alone, Peter discovers a boy upon the island, recently awoken, and by his father's stories of children lost across Neverland, he begins to build an army as new waves of Unionists arrive to take the mantle.
Meanwhile, the roughshod passing of the mantle alerts Pangean powers to the dire nature the Pan faces, knowing that should the Pan fail to do his duty in protecting the First Powers, far more than national stability is at stake. The pixies of Tinker Belle's homeland gather to draw her home and end their ties with the Pan, Unionists taking power in Eden face destruction by open war should they be unable to produce the mantle to members of the Edenic Charter.
As Peter struggles to accept his with his new role and Tinker Belle her responsibility in keeping him alive, natives from Earth arrive on the island as part of an ancient prophecy, tied tightly to the Tree of Life in which Peter lives and around which all power -- magic or spiritual -- revolves. Only the Pan, whose magic comes from the Creator, himself, can reclaim the powers and return them to their rightful places ...
but only if he survives the Unionists, the island and the psychotic lost boy, first.
ABOUT
PETER is the anchor book to the seven-book fantasy epic Legend of the Pan, an adult fantasy retelling of the Peter Pan saga. ADVENT, Book 1, is due out in the next year and will explore how the panhood came into being through a bloody conflict of magic, dragons and the generals of heaven.
PETER is an adult retelling of this classic fairytale, tackles difficult themes with potential triggers for assault victims, and should not be made available to children. While not gratuitous, PETER features a number of adult situations unsuitable for sensitive audiences.
Peter must face the harsh realities that his parents may be dead, the Unionists now come for him, and the full responsibility of a mantle he barely understands lies on him, alone. If waves of enemy mages or Neverland’s monstrous beasts don’t kill the young pan, the psychotic lost boy will.
SYNOPSIS
After surviving a deadly rout, Lord Pan of Eden William Baley, flees to a remote, man-eating island with his wife April and son Peter, chased by virulent insurgency who have stolen the powers of creation to tip the scales of revolution against human nations across Pangea. Bent on rule of men for their own good, Unionists have taken Eden, its allies and now pursue the Pan for his mantle, the powerful magic that gives him long life, the ability to communicate with all life and the key to vast international trade and military accords.
When William's attempt to give Peter the mantle goes wrong, Peter wakes alone with his father's pixie attache Tinker Belle on an island beset by dangerous agents led by a powerful psychic. Alone, Peter discovers a boy upon the island, recently awoken, and by his father's stories of children lost across Neverland, he begins to build an army as new waves of Unionists arrive to take the mantle.
Meanwhile, the roughshod passing of the mantle alerts Pangean powers to the dire nature the Pan faces, knowing that should the Pan fail to do his duty in protecting the First Powers, far more than national stability is at stake. The pixies of Tinker Belle's homeland gather to draw her home and end their ties with the Pan, Unionists taking power in Eden face destruction by open war should they be unable to produce the mantle to members of the Edenic Charter.
As Peter struggles to accept his with his new role and Tinker Belle her responsibility in keeping him alive, natives from Earth arrive on the island as part of an ancient prophecy, tied tightly to the Tree of Life in which Peter lives and around which all power -- magic or spiritual -- revolves. Only the Pan, whose magic comes from the Creator, himself, can reclaim the powers and return them to their rightful places ...
but only if he survives the Unionists, the island and the psychotic lost boy, first.
ABOUT
PETER is the anchor book to the seven-book fantasy epic Legend of the Pan, an adult fantasy retelling of the Peter Pan saga. ADVENT, Book 1, is due out in the next year and will explore how the panhood came into being through a bloody conflict of magic, dragons and the generals of heaven.
PETER is an adult retelling of this classic fairytale, tackles difficult themes with potential triggers for assault victims, and should not be made available to children. While not gratuitous, PETER features a number of adult situations unsuitable for sensitive audiences.
459 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 22, 2021
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Christian Michael
30 booksBorn in Georgia and raised mostly across the American South, Christian has moved more than sixty times across eleven states and two countries. He currently resides in the Denver area. A twenty-year enlisted Air Force veteran, professional voice actor, visual designer, web developer, data analyst and all-around info nut, he dislikes being bored.
A staunch individualist, Christian believes power resides within arm’s reach and that people can live their fullest lives when they draw their eyes from the ambitions of world change to the quiet victory of inner peace.
Christian grew up an “Accelerated Reader” (yeah, buddy) reading the likes of Orson Scott Card and Isaac Asimov, the Hardy Boys and the expanded Star Wars X-Wing series. As an adult, he has delved in Robert Jordan, Terry Goodkind, Brandon Sanderson, Ayn Rand, Brent Weeks, Mercedes Lackey and more.
A staunch individualist, Christian believes power resides within arm’s reach and that people can live their fullest lives when they draw their eyes from the ambitions of world change to the quiet victory of inner peace.
Christian grew up an “Accelerated Reader” (yeah, buddy) reading the likes of Orson Scott Card and Isaac Asimov, the Hardy Boys and the expanded Star Wars X-Wing series. As an adult, he has delved in Robert Jordan, Terry Goodkind, Brandon Sanderson, Ayn Rand, Brent Weeks, Mercedes Lackey and more.
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May 31, 2021
I’m a huge fan of Peter Pan in nearly all its forms, so I was excited when I learned about this new series coming out. The author is great with his world-building and visual descriptions, and he goes in a direction with things that I haven’t really seen before. (The character who will become Hook has a very intriguing relationship with the crocodile early on.) HOWEVER...I had two major issues with the book. (1) This is mostly just a personal issue and might not deter all readers, but there were so many new characters and locations that I felt it took away from the Peter Pan characters we already know and love. I come to a retelling to further explore a world and characters I already know and love, not to be dropped into the middle of what feels like a fictional history book on the battles between groups of people I have no prior connection to. But that’s just me. Lovers of high fantasy who don’t mind a LOT of OC’s may not be bothered. I just got bored with it. (2) More importantly...while the book establishes that it’s “not for kids,” it’s more than that. I see “not for kids” and think “violence and maybe a sex scene or two.” I can deal with that. This book, however, is not even appropriate for all adults and could be very triggering for some. It contains (albeit not super explicit descriptions of) both THE GANG RAPE OF A WOMAN AND THE RAPE OF A CHILD. I didn’t finish reading it after encountering the child rape scene, and I won’t be continuing the series...which is a shame, because the author is talented.
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