From the Bookshelf of Into the Forest…

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

Ransom Riggs

Start date: July 30, 2011

Finish date: September 30, 2011

Find A Copy At

Libraries

Group Discussions About This Book

No group discussions for this book yet.

What Members Thought

Sep 26, 2016 Katie J Schwartz rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: suspend-reality, young-adult-lit, library, kickass-ladies, fey-creatures, series-sequels-sagas, audiobooks, spooky, black-and-white, onscreen

I wanted to finally read this before the movie came out, because I knew I'd probably end up seeing it. Except, I didn't have time to read it. So I decided to take advantage of the commute from hell and give the audiobook a try.

Somewhere around chapter 5, I was really getting into the story and I decided to watch the movie trailer for the first time.

I could already tell that I was going to be salty about movie changes.

Sigh. Well, anyway, I still really enjoyed the story.

What I Liked:
- I loved all ...more

Like · see review

Mar 06, 2012 Melanti rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: illustrated, e-book, 2012, young-adult, horror, historical

Neither as bad as I feared or as good as I had hoped.

I was a long-time fan of Ransom Riggs' Strange Geography blog on Mental Floss before he resigned. But I have to admit, I was a fan mostly for the strange and spooky photography, both vintage photos and modern. The text of the articles never truly impacted my opinion of the blog one way or the other.

In this book, however, there's not enough photographs to carry the story by themselves and Riggs' prose is not well developed. I'm glad I read the ...more

Like · see review

Mar 14, 2012 ¸.•*¨*•Gina *A Bookwyrm in Belgium*•*¨*•.¸ rated it liked it

Not remotely creepy, but quirky and enjoyable. The pictures are amazing, and really add to the overall feel.

Like · see review

Feb 20, 2014 Fiona rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: 2014

I had higher expectations of this book, even after reading other people's disheartened reviews. The premise was sound, the pictures caught my attention, but the execution (as everyone else said) just wasn't there. It's definitely not a BAD book, but probably not something I would recommend.

On a side note, I wish the star ratings allowed for half stars. That would be nice. ...more

Like · see review