It's more like 3.75 stars actually. The beginning was fantastic and the end even better but in the middle of the story the main character Jacob spent some time [spoiler] in a time loop [/spoiler] , so the story was dragging quite a bit.
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs is the first book in the Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children series. Sixteen-year-old Jacob has questions after a family tragedy, which leads him to a remote island and to a ruined orphanage, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. Plot...
Series: Miss Peregrine #1 I was pleasantly surprised by this book. What little I knew of it sounded weird, so I didn't know exactly what I was getting into or how the main character's story would tie into that of his grandfather's. I'm just trying not to look at some of the questionable internal l...
Book: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children Author: Ransom Riggs Genre: Young Adult/Fiction/Supernatural Summary: A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of peculiar photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, an un...
I had heard from at least three people that the synopsis did not accurately represent this book, so when I decided to read it because it was recommended to me by a student, I purposely did not re-read the synopsis as a reminder to what it was about. As it happens, I did enjoy Miss Peregrine's Home f...
This book was such a big disappointment that it basically completely turned me off reading for a while. The cover made me expect a creepy, gothic, perhaps even horror story... Which this book decisively is not. It's YA, and a bad example of it, with incredibly unlikeable characters and an annoying, ...
The story is not great, but entertaining enough. When I read this, it keep reminding me of the struggle point of view with Professor X and Magneto. This school is run by a mutant who could transform herself into a bird. The rest of mutant children have different powers. The storytelling is ok...
A spine-tingling fantasy illustrated with haunting vintage photography, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children will delight adults, teens, and anyone who relishes an adventure in the shadows. (Ransom Riggs) A delightful book indeed, with elements of horror and fiction, this novel is definite...
Around the Year Reading Challenge Item #49: A Book with a Great Opening LineThis book has intrigued me since it first came across my desk when I was a teen services librarian -- I remember my intern taking it home the day it was processed and reading it all in one night. But I put off reading it unt...
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