TITLE: Miss
Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
AUTHOR: Ransom
Riggs
PUBLISHED: June
2011
GENRE: YA fantasy, male lead,
SERIES: Miss
Peregrine #1
SETTING: Cairnholm
Island, Wales
WHERE I GOT IT: ebook
borrow from the library
ABOUT BLURB: The
book is about a 16 year old boy named Jacob who after a horrific
event convinces his parents to let him travel to an Island off the
coast of Wales to discover more about his Grandfather and his
collection of strange and eerie photographs. What he finds is an
adventure like he never thought was possible.
EXPECTATIONS: I
honestly didn't know what to expect. I knew that it was a popular YA
novel but didn't really know anything more about it. I absolutely
LOVE the cover picture of the little girl seemingly hovering a half a
foot off of the ground. After I started reading it, I read a bit
about the author and his concept for the book and found that the
pictures in the book were found vintage photos from either the
authors collection or of that of other collectors. He wrote the story
around the pictures. A definite intriguing idea.
WHAT I LIKED: I
loved that the book was written around the pictures and I enjoyed
seeing then scattered through out the book. They were quite eerie and
very very cool at the same time.
WHAT I HATED: As
much as I loved the story as a whole and the authors depiction of the
Island and his writing style I really didn't care to much for any of
the characters. To me they were just a vehicle to ride to the end of
the book. I could have inserted any character, male of female with
any name and I still would have been like 'meh'. I did find the
children to be interesting in that they each have their own
peculiarity about them but as a individual not so much. They were
simply just there.
HOW IT ENDED: The ending for me was okay. By
this time I knew that there was going to be a second book in the
series so I knew to not expect an actual ending per say. I feel that
the main question of the book, Jacob's grandfather and his history, was solved but with any series the ending left me with a whole new set of questions.
I
feel very optimistic for their future though. It is like they are
going to war, which really they are, but what that outcome is, is not
determined yet. It's sort of like when his grandfather first left the
Island as well. History is repeating itself but in a different way. I
know all of that seems sort of vague but I don't want to give to much
away. What happened was really nothing I expected even though there
were a few hints earlier in the book.
FINAL THOUGHTS: Even though the whole novel is shrouded in mystery and I could not put it down I could not identify with any of the characters. I didn't really care to much about any of them or their relationships to each other and others. Sure some of them were more interesting then others but I just didn't really care to know everything I could about them. I am still looking forward to where Jacob's next quest will take him though.
MY RATING: 3
out of 5 stars
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