The Ending of Tiger Lily

I finished the book tonight and I am quite infuriated. I held off reading the last few pages after dinner because I was already near to tears, and I saw some of the letter Peter Pan sent Tiger Lily. I believe you cannot fall 'out' of love with someone, you either always love at least some of someone or never at all.

Tiger Lily promised Peter she'd leave her tribe to be with him and the lost boys, but suddenly Tik Tok becomes sick. Phillip, the Englander who Tiger Lily tried to save came back and started telling stories. He told Tik Tok he would never be accepted into heaven for wearing dresses, Tik Tok eventually cuts his hair and becomes as normal as he could. Tiger Lily is so angry when she finds this, she sets up birds to infest the homes of the Englanders on Neverland as if the God's were back. Tiger Lily had forgotten temporarily about Peter, so she never went to leave with him. Her mind was infested on Tik Tok. When she finally does get a chance to get away, she goes to Peter and the boys where she sees a new girl.

Wendy. They called her Windy bird because she was in a tree like a bird when the boys found her. The group was so invested into this new girl they hardly paid attention to Tiger Lily. Eventually, Peter and Tiger Lily confront each other, but it is also near too late. Tiger Lily formed an alliance with the pirates. She planned on killing Wendy and Peter. At this point, my heart was breaking. Tiger Lily was abandoned by Peter Pan when she needed him the most. Her father had died, she has to get married and Peter belongs to someone else now. Now, she does go back for the couple after realizing she is in the wrong for thinking such thoughts. She goes to save Peter and Wendy from the water, but the mermaids try to drown Tiger Lily. She gets away, as do Peter and Wendy.

When Tiger Lily leaves, Smee, the pirate who wished to kill Tiger Lily catches her. But, bit by bit the true Tiger Lily is coming back. She gets loose from the pirate and goes safely home when he falls into the crocodiles' mouths.

This post is getting longer and longer, so I will try to shorten this up a little bit. Peter is leaving for England with Wendy, where they do get married. But Tiger Lily goes to see him first where he says,"Maybe I just love some of you. Maybe not enough." Tiger Lily didn't understand how you could only love a part of something, when Peter seemed to love all of her. Towards the end of the book, Tinker Bell goes to England where she sees Peter. He has aged, it's 50 years later and he has gray hair. When she returns to Neverland, Pine Sap and Tiger Lily are to get married and Tinker Bell finds a letter from Peter. He explains int he letter that it wasn't he loved part of Tiger Lily but that he was afraid she was braver than him, that he wondered if she could ever love more than some of him.

This was a great book, and I certainly do recommend Tiger Lily by Jodi Lynn Anderson to any girl, or even boy. I hope anyone who reads it enjoys it as much as I did.