Review of: Miss Peregrine’s Home for
Peculiar Children
Ransom Riggs
Quirk Books, 349 pg.
Hardcover $17.99
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| Front Cover |
Ranson Riggs, writer, film maker, and collector of abandoned
photographs is also a New York Times Best Seller. The gold stamp of approval on
the cover of his first novel, Miss
Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, is well deserved. Riggs’ first
novel is a hauntingly emotional story filled with enough wonder and peculiarity
to keep you entrenched in an otherwise seemingly impossible world.
When I first stumbled upon Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children I loved the cover. It’s
black and white and it’s ancient. It’s captivating and it’s intriguing. In
other words, it’s creepy. I really like a creepy factor in my books. The cover
made interested, the photographs inside sold me the book. Riggs’ amazing collection
of “authentic, vintage photographs” is what tethers fantasy to reality.
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| Back Cover |
The story begins when sixteen-year-old Jacob’s life is torn
apart with the tragic death of his grandfather. In order to understand the only
family he ever loved, Jacob travels to a remote island off the coast of Wales.
Upon arrival he discovers a dying sea village, an abandoned house, and the
peculiar half truths of his grandfather’s life.
Miss Peregrine’s Home
for Peculiar Children is delightfully mystical. Riggs journeys far beyond
the mysteries of the supernatural and introduces a world outside the likes of
any pagan folklore. While Riggs created this essentially wholesome world of children
he also created the monsters that lurk in the darkness. Miss Peregrine’s children
are being hunted and they need a hero. In search for the truth to his
Grandfather’s life Jacob finds he is on a journey to discover himself.
It’s a wildly creative tale.
The only fault I could find was in the ending. It ended a
bit like a young adult novel preparing its reader for the next installment.
While it didn’t leave a bitter taste in my mouth it most certainly left me
wondering what’s going to happen next.
I hope this isn’t the last we see of this gang of unusual
children and their stoic headmistress.
Love,
Grace
OKay okay, it's going on the Amazon wish list!
ReplyDeleteI promise, you won't regret it. The only thing I highly suggest is don't buy it in digital format. It's a book worthy of buying in first edition (I even read a review that said that). The pictures sell it, they make the characters real. I hope you love it as much as I did. :)
ReplyDeleteThe pictures are definitely whats intriguing me
ReplyDeleteAt one point, there is a picture of Emma (page 118) where I had to cover her face with my hand while I finished reading. :)
ReplyDeleteoh my... ha
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