Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #1) in DC Public Library

Oct 20, 2016 Meg - A Bookish Affair rated it really liked it

Shelves: young-adult, fiction, fantasy

"Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" is a book that I have been wanting to read for a while. I know you shouldn't judge a book by its cover but this cover is hard to miss. You have a hovering little girl in black and white standing on the front cover. It was just begging me to read it!

In this book, Jacob grows up hearing fantastical stories from his grandfather who lived in Europe during World War II. Jacob doesn't think anything of his grandfather's stories besides just being entertai ...more

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Dec 22, 2014 Arlene Caruso rated it it was ok

Ugh. Didn't enjoy this one. I feel like it was not edited well? There were lots of grammatical errors that jarred me out of the book and made me think "who wrote this?" It's a mess. I'm not saying I could write it any better but I am not a professional writer. Also I thought it was a book for children (YA?) but there were lots of references to stuff like boners and at one point the protagonist says something about his friend's mother blowing truckers for food stamps. Not sure that is something I ...more

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Mar 25, 2016 Meghan rated it really liked it

I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. ~ Ransom Riggs

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Mar 20, 2012 Mfred rated it liked it

Shelves: fantasy, young-adult

Quick, creepy, easy read. Perfect for a long international flight and the jet lag that followed.

I read this on my Pocket Sony eReader, which meant that the pics were poorly displayed. However, I got the jist and was still able to appreciate their creepy qualities, even if I couldn't see any details. ...more

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