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

Ransom Riggs

Start date: September 1, 2012

Finish date: September 30, 2012

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Jun 03, 2015 Rachel N. rated it liked it

Jacob Portman is a 16 year old living in Florida. Jacob's grandfather Abe has told him wild stories about his youth at a school in Wales. When his grandfather mysteriously dies Jacob and his father travel to Wales to try to find out more about Abe's past. The book uses antique photos throughout that have been "minimally" touched up by the author. I wonder how much photoshop was actually involved. I found the pictures to be distracting and it seemed to me that certain book events occurred only be ...more

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Jun 07, 2015 Jean-Marie rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy, young-adult, photography, supernatural

Miss Peregrine and I are done. We are parting ways and trying to keep it civil. She thinks my expectations are too high (which is silly because judging by the cover you would think some pretty big thrills were ahead). I think she's a bit of a bore (I feel led on with all of the very alluring photography). I'm sure she'll find a better reader somewhere out there when I let my copy loose into the world. It's me, not her; but here is where our reading relationship will end. I'm still interested in ...more

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Mar 16, 2013 Deb Vanasse rated it really liked it

Eerie photos - they're real! Great premise, and the characters worked, but the pacing feels a little off - the first half is a lot of waiting for things to happen, and the climactic scene goes on and on. The tension between real/not real and where one's home really lies make for good themes. A gap in the story logic here and there, but it's hard not to have any when you're doing time-centric fantasy. ...more

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