Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

, #1

Trade Paperback, 382 pages

English language

Published June 3, 2013 by Quirk Books.

ISBN:
978-1-59474-603-1
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OCLC Number:
881507265
Goodreads:
17162156

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4 stars (9 reviews)

A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of curious photographs. 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 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.

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I really wanted to like this book (MISS PEREGRINE). I loved the idea of a book informed by creepy found photographs, the book description promised abundant creepiness, and reading the first 60 pages right before bed granted phenomenally creeptastic dreams. I was pretty confident that the rest of the book would be equally delightfully creepy.

It was not. MISS PEREGRINE is basically A Day In The Life Of The Mutant School In X-Men bookended by 60 great creepy pages and one great creepy scene of a monster in the rain.

The book description and the first 60-ish pages suggest that it's the kids who are creepy, what's creepier than kids? (Don't believe me? Go watch Firestarter, and The Ring, and Children of the Corn, and Let The Right One In, then we'll talk.) So it's pretty disappointing when the kids turn out to be, basically, junior X-Men, and the abandoned …

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