Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #1) in Reading with Style

Jun 13, 2012 Juniper rated it really liked it

Shelves: 2012-books, first-books, scifi-fantasy

if we could give half-stars...i would give this 4.5! it was such a good story!!

riggs seems like a very interesting dude. sort of eclectic and eccentric, i think, which kind of describes his novel too.

the story is definitely plot-driven but the characters, peculiar as they are, are well-developed and interesting. this book ends leaving the reader with the hope there will be a 2nd book. i am happy to have learned that this is, in fact, planned and riggs is working away on it already. yay!!! this i ...more

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Jun 19, 2012 Jayme(theghostreader) rated it really liked it

This book started out slow. I don't know if I give it five stars. Once Jaccob met the children and starting visiting them did the story pick up. I liked all the children that were featured. I liked that Jaccob came around and stood up for himself. I found it cute that all the headmistresses were named after birds. I read some of the previous reviews and I didn't find the romance between Jaccob and his grandfather's ex girlfriend to be all that strange. I mean she looks his age. She is just sixty ...more

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Sep 07, 2012 Teddie rated it liked it

I liked the originality of the story and writing style of the author - both of which kept me going through a story that often lost its grip on me. I didn't realize until the end that the story was built around the fascinating and eerie photographs - I had thought the photos were created for the story. Other than Jacob, I just didn't feel connected to the other characters in the book, but the writing and uniqueness of the story do make me want to get to know them better. I will be reading the seq ...more

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