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I love books that mix art and story, so Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children was intriguing to me. Riggs' use of photographs to complement the story was a great idea, yet I ultimately felt like the book started stronger than it ended. When we meet Jacob, he's working at a drugstore in Florida, trying to take care of his grandfather and nearly friendless. Then everything changes when Jacob witnesses his grandfather's death and begins to believe that the imaginative stories his grandfather
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Teen paranormal thriller. I listened to this on audio so I didn't see any of the old photographs sprinkled throughout the text. I felt Jacob, the narrator and main character, had an authentic teen voice and was a sympathetic character. The plot - sort-of X-Men with a time travel angle - didn't do much for me and I found myself zoning out at various points. Okay but not the book for me.
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I hated the main character. It was not really interesting from his point of view. Even katniss in hunger games was more interesting.
I bought the others so now I have to read this whole stupid trilogy.
I bought the others so now I have to read this whole stupid trilogy.
May 09, 2012
Terri
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