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

Ransom Riggs

Start date: March 13, 2012

Finish date: March 31, 2012

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Mar 05, 2015 Krissy rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: audiobook, buddy-read, pgs-300-399, 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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Aug 15, 2012 Yzabel Ginsberg rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: paranormal-supernatural, young-adult, time-travel

2.5 stars. I'm not sure at all how I feel about this book. It's like the back cover that got me interested in it, and the actual story I read, weren't about the same thing, and this bothers me. I thought the big reveal of the secret behind the mysterious house came too soon: I had expected the whole book to be about that, with Jacob finding clues, discovering litte by little what had happened, discovering something horrible, alright... but I got something else, that probably wasn't as interestin ...more

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