Miss Peregrine's Home for Children
Author: Ransom Riggs
Publisher: Quirk Publishing
Date Publishing: June 7th 2011
From Goodreads:
A mysterious island.
An abandoned orphanage.
It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience. As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that the children were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They may have been quarantined on a deserted island for good reason. And somehow—impossible though it seems—they may still be alive.
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Before I started Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
I went thru the book looking at all the photos which pumped me even more. I couldn’t wait to get started so I can link
the photos to the story. I’m surprised how
much the pictures turned Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children from a
great read to an awesome one.
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children is a peculiar story. I wasn’t quite sure how it was going to come
together and make sense in the beginning and half way thru I sort of just let
go of trying to figure it out and just rode the wave. I loved the peculiar children. I wanted to learn everything about them, and
wished I had known them even more by the end of the novel. I wanted their back stories, I wanted know how
they came to be at the orphanage. I
wished the story was longer.
Main character Jacob is on this adventure that his
grandfather sent him on. In the
beginning it doesn’t so much feel like an adventure though. Seriously, Jacob is traumatized after finding
his grandfather dead in the woods in back of his house, and sees a scary
monster like thing in the woods. After
hearing for years his grandfather’s stories of the orphanage he lived in with
all the peculiar children he needed to find out if his father was telling the
truth after all.
Ransom Riggs is brilliant in his storytelling. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
is a great book, I recommend you read it.
I really look forward to reading this! I'm #23 on 10 copies at the library and I can't wait. :)
ReplyDeleteI just read this one for book club last month. The pictures definitely made the book so much more interesting to read. I have to agree with you about having to just let go and read the book without trying to figure things out, once you do that its really good.
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