Review: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

I received this book for free from FTC: Exchange for honest opinion, Publisher in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.

A horrific family tragedy sends Jacob 16 to a remote island off Wales, to the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, where he finds unusual old photographs. The children, one his grandfather, were more than peculiar, perhaps dangerous, quarantined for good reason - and maybe still alive.

I have only heard or seen Ransom Riggs through twitter and Instagram. Now I am finally am able to see the type of writer he is. These are the words that come to mind after reading his book on Peculiar Children. Weird. Mysterious. Random. Original. Unique. And a new favorite author of mine.

The book did start off slow for me in the beginning but when I got the chance to sit down and have the book all to myself with no distractions, I found myself really connecting with its pages and above all the world and characters Riggs created and made real. This book became such a captivating read on the ride home from McAllen that reality became unimportant and the idea of me finishing the book became the goal I set out to complete. And complete it I did. Within an hour I had read 200+ pages and when closing the book, I immediately wanted more.

Jacob is an interesting character, especially his grandfather. Both these characters are the ones who controlled the gist of the story in the beginning and then after a sudden death, Jacob is introduced to a world of Peculiar Children who not only become his friends but also his family. Miss Peregrine I felt held onto a lot of secrets that were not exposed in this first book but will soon be revealed in the next book.

There were a different enemy that I have not seen before in other books and this is what I felt brought out the originality in this piece of literature. Along with the dangers there were a lot of twists and betrayals that made the evil in this book come alive. We did not see the full extent of the enemies I feel and feel this too might be expressed more in the next novel.

I feel that the romance in here was somewhat gross. I do not want to go into much detail because I would like for you to read the book but it was not disgusting on a high level but I had to take a second and think about what just happened.  And no it was not incest.

Overall this book left off in a good place, and if you have not figured out yet, I am excited to see where this adventure continues. Ransom Riggs is a brilliant author who is able to manipulate photographs with his world and characters which makes this a spell-binding novel. This book is unique start off in a series which can lead to only greatness later on. Ransom Riggs is definitely an author I will be looking out for in the New Year.

I give it 4 bites!