Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

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Ransom Riggs: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2015, Thorndike Press)

482 pages

English language

Published Nov. 29, 2015 by Thorndike Press.

ISBN:
978-1-59413-956-7
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4 stars (26 reviews)

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, and 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 decaying bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that Miss Peregrine's 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. (Book cover)

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reviewed Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs (Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children, #1)

Review of 'Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children, #1)' on 'Goodreads'

2 stars

This is the second time I have read Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. It didn’t appeal to me the first time I read it. According to my colleague, it gets better in later books. As much as I can, I push through it this time. I’m determined to finish the book and see if my colleague is right. I’m hoping that giving it another chance will pay off.

Unfortunately, my opinion has not changed. The story is nothing more than a few creepy pictures and some weird characters. There is too much emphasis placed on the telling of the stories rather than developing their plot. As a result, the story let me down. Despite what it claims to be, it was nowhere near as creepy or strange as it seems.

Character development is lacking. In the book, it portrayed the children in a manner similar to a circus freak. …

Review of 'Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children, #1)' on 'Goodreads'

1 star

Considering the ubiquitousness of the X-Men, it seems unfair nowadays to fault any story for being derivative of tropes laid out by Marvel's mutants, but it is fair to ask that such a derivative tale have more substance and less gimmick.

Review of "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children: The Graphic Novel follows the same story of the book of the same name.

Jacob was brought up on his grandfather’s stories of a peculiar group of children he claimed to have spent his childhood with. Jacobs stops believing him until the day his grandfather is attacked by a monster. No one believes Jacob of course and a large chunk of the novel is given over to his therapy sessions, however these are skimmed over in this version. I liked the concise nature of the graphic novel; it’s a story about childhood monsters and make-believe being reality after all. Somehow, with less padding, Jacob seems older, more like the teenager boy he is supposed to be.

The artist is Cassandre Jean who does wonderful things with colour to highlight the differences between Jacob’s rather grey world and the Narnia-like quality of the loop. Not …

Review of "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

For a while, Jacob believed his grandfather’s tales of the home he grew up in, on a remote island off the coast of Wales. He even had a collection of photographs to back them up. But Jacob soon grew out of the fairy tales, seeing manipulation in all the photographs, until one day, his grandfather is attacked. In the shadows, Jacob sees something. Something that may just prove his grandfather wasn’t crazy. Now everyone thinks Jacob is crazy. With agreement from his psychiatrist, Jacob sets off to Cairnholm Island to visit the place where the stories started.

It was a wonderful idea to build up a story around vintage photographs. The photos are genuine (anyone with an interest in the history of photography will know that people liked manipulating them from the start) and the characters are born out of them. In places, it felt a bit forced and the …

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Subjects

  • Children's fiction
  • Orphanages, fiction
  • Wales, fiction
  • Fantasy fiction
  • Supernatural, fiction
  • Grandparents, fiction

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