The tenth book in the New York Times bestselling Villains series takes a dive into the Underworld, exploring how Hades turned from god to villain. But Rose doesn’t believe the shipwreck was an act of nature, nor does she believe Charles is truly dead. Now, Rose has found her happily ever after with Charles - until a sudden storm destroys his ship and he is presumed dead. The 9th book in the New York Times bestselling Villains series tells the tale of the rise and fall of the infamous pirate, Captain Hook--a boy who grew up. When she and her buttoned-up partner Bella are assigned their first case, finding missing teenager Molly F.

Struggling to hang on to the deep, pure love she's found within her marriage to her husband, Jonathan, she is inexorably drawn into a secret, passionate affair with a charismatic but dangerous lover. Which is also why I cannot rate the book as a whole as high as I hoped to: I love James so deeply that this story is just depressing me insanely much. With a neighboring kingdom looking for any excuse to invade their shores, and rumors of ghost pirates lurking the seas, Eric is desperate for any information that may help him break his enchantment and bring stability to Vellona.Still, if it wasn't going to get into anything too dark or complex, it could've had a little more excitement or something. As he grows up, he hates his life in London, and everything to do with growing up and eventually becoming a gentleman.

James is claimed by his parents just shy of seven days―after which he would have officially become a Lost Boy. I'm always able to keep up with nuanced, complicated plots, but this one proved too much for me, so at some point in the middle I was completely lost. Overall, this was a Hook backstory that had potential to be interesting but lacked the depth that would've made it so for me.

I've read most of this series so far (I think I somehow managed to miss Cruella's story in Evil Thing) so when I spotted Hook's story on the shelf in my local supermarket, I snatched it up. Overall, Never, Never is an interesting twist on Captain Hook’s character - one I wish went just a little further. His arc was incredibly crafted and from all the Pan and Hook retellings I read so far, this book definitely delivered my favorite interpretation and presentation of James. However, so far this series, even though it's still Disney and not that deep, kept on surprising me.