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

Ransom Riggs

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Prompt 25: A book you were supposed to read in school but didn't
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Mar 05, 2015 Krissy rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: pgs-300-399, audiobook, buddy-read, cover-color-gray-silver

The ending was pretty exciting but, damn, it was a sllooooowwwww journey getting there. The first 90% of this book was pretty dull but necessary. Everybody tells me that books 2 and 3 are the tits and this one is more of an introduction. Which is why I sat through the entire thing. Otherwise I would have marked it DNF. And the kissing? Weird and awkward. If you want to get technical we are witnessing an 88 year old woman making out with a 16 year old boy. And said woman used to be the girlfriend ...more

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Nov 11, 2011 jess rated it liked it

Shelves: yaf, 2011, secret-book-club

This is the story of a small, mysterious Welsh island and the orphanage there filled with peculiar children. Our hero, Jacob, finds himself on the journey of a lifetime to uncover the secrets of his grandfather's difficult life. The tale is a sort of time-travel adventure, with dangers lurking in every shadow and a house full of children with alarming supernatural powers.

The story is constructed on a scaffolding of "found" photos. The author seems to write to the images, using the narrative to ...more

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Apr 08, 2016 Isabel Jazmín rated it really liked it

Entré poco a poco en la historia pero una vez que me interesé por sus vidas, leí y leí hasta el final que me dejó un sabor agridulce: más o menos desde la mitad del libro se sabe (o se intuye) que no será una historia autoconclusiva, sino una historia de planteamiento pero de todas maneras me esperaba algunas respuestas más en este primer volumen.

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