Christmas Awards 2011

Saturday 18 July 2015

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

Publisher: Quirk

June 2011

ISBN: 978-1-59474-476-1

Pages: 351


Contemporary and Historical Time-Travel Paranormal YA


Florida & Wales, England


Jacob is a sixteen-year-old that is set on a journey when a horrific family tragedy strikes.  He goes to a remote island off the coast of Wales and discovers a crumbling ruin that was once Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. The more Jacob explores the abandoned bedrooms and hallways the more he finds that Miss Peregrine’s children were much more than just peculiar.  They may have been quarantined on a deserted island as they might have been dangerous and where there for a very good reason.  Even more impossible is the fact that they might actually still be alive.


This is a story that takes photographs and remarkable story telling to a level that makes for a book that will have readers eating it up.  While there is a bit of a cliffhanger it still proves to be a story worth reading and will have readers eagerly getting the next book just to see what will happen next.  The book is very different and with the photographs in it and it transports readers to another place.  It will be interesting to see just where the journey of the books will take readers. While it is a young adult book adults will enjoy this one just as much as teens will.  This one will also end up on many keeper shelves.


I give this one 5 red roses


LRH


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