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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #1)

Ransom Riggs

Start date: January 1, 2018

Finish date: January 31, 2018

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Jun 26, 2011 ღ Carol jinx~☆~☔ʚϊɞ rated it really liked it

As the story opens, Jacob's Grandfather is full of stories that are too impossible to believe about a mysterious island, an orphanage, and a very strange collection of very curious photographs. When Grandfather dies in a most horrific encounter with a monster that only Jacob can see, he travels to the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children.
He explores the house and discovers pictures and maybe ...the children that lived there are sti ...more

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Sep 02, 2014 Lindsay rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 4stars, ya, read-in-2014, cover-to-cover-2014

3.5 stars

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Feb 04, 2012 Gregor Xane rated it liked it

Shelves: 2012

This had a neat little gimmick and was a fun read.

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Feb 04, 2014 Diandra Knutson rated it liked it

Shelves: new-closet-bookshelf, 2017-physical-library, 2022-physical-library, gothic

This wasn't what I expected at all. Everyone had hyped up this book SO much. Don't you hate when people do that? They make it seem like a book is equivalent to the Second Coming and you're so excited that you already put the book on a pedestal before you even read it. In the end, you are so disappointed because it didn't reach that standard you had placed for it.

That was "Miss Peregrine's" for me. I wanted MIND EXPLOSION. Instead, i got a little piece of paper with ka-plow written on it.

We follo This wasn't what I expected at all. Everyone had hyped up this book SO much. Don't you hate when people do that? They make it seem like a book is equivalent to the Second Coming and you're so excited that you already put the book on a pedestal before you even read it. In the end, you are so disappointed because it didn't reach that standard you had placed for it.

That was "Miss Peregrine's" for me. I wanted MIND EXPLOSION. Instead, i got a little piece of paper with ka-plow written on it.

We follow Jacob, a teenage boy who idolized his grandfather more than anyone in the world. Grandpa Portman was a man who had constant stories to tell about his childhood at an orphanage filled with kids with powers and monsters. When Grandpa P dies, Jacob is hurt the most and the only way for him to begin the "healing process" is to go to the island where his grandfather grew up and learn more about him. A lot more than he expected, like all the stories? Yea...they might be true.

Jacob as a character is really interesting and not once did I pity him or wish he grew up. He was easy to care for, independent, headstrong, and logical. His journey was great to follow and I was actually pretty shocked at how accepting he was of the situations placed before him. I'm so used to characters who dont accept what's going on, then they whine and cry. 40 pages go by and that character is STILL whining and crying. So, I applaud you, Jacob! Others can learn a thing or two from you.

Now, the book itself! I rather enjoyed it, but there wasnt anything that has stood out and is branded on my mind. I don't have any favorite moments, to be honest. The story is very creative, a parallel world within our own. A secret gateway into an unknown land or, in this case, a known moment in time.

The home of the peculiar children was great to get into. I liked the dialogue and the interaction between characters. Riggs introduced a large amount of characters, but I was so grateful that he didn't go in depth on everyone. All the children had such interesting (and some useless) powers and that would have been extremely hard to follow. Instead Riggs introduced his mains and stuck with it. Shockingly enough, I dont believe Riggs gave the characters any true back story as well. All that mattered was the life they lived at the orphanage and the new adventure they were embarking. That really worked for me.

I give this book:

3 Stars

Now, it was slow at some pieces, but when it got good, it got good. But again, this book was an entertaining and filling read to pass time. Plus it was very refreshing to read a YA book by a male author! I heard that the sequel "Hollow City" is better than this one, so maybe i'll end up buying it one day. I am curious about the ymbrines and their time loops.... ...more

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