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The #1 New York Times best-selling series. Includes an excerpt from Hollow City and an interview with author Ransom Riggs A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of very 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 abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that the 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. A spine-tingling fantasy illustrated with haunting vintage photography, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children will delight adults, teens, and anyone who relishes an adventure in the shadows. “A tense, moving, and wondrously strange first novel. The photographs and text work together brilliantly to create an unforgettable story.”—John Green, New York Times best-selling author of The Fault in Our Stars “With its X-Men: First Class-meets-time-travel story line, David Lynchian imagery, and rich, eerie detail, it’s no wonder Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children has been snapped up by Twentieth Century Fox. B+”—Entertainment Weekly “‘Peculiar’ doesn’t even begin to cover it. Riggs’ chilling, wondrous novel is already headed to the movies.”—People “You’ll love it if you want a good thriller for the summer. It’s a mystery, and you’ll race to solve it before Jacob figures it out for himself.”—Seventeen
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6 primary books9 released booksMiss Peregrine's Peculiar Children is a 9-book series with 6 primary works first released in 2011 with contributions by Ransom Riggs.
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Liked the world building, didn't so much care for the last quarter or so. And this is another book that just ends, instead of having an ending.
Every five years, I have a year of no-book-buying, to give myself a chance to read the dozens of books that I own but haven't read. (This is inevitably thwarted by living in West Philadelphia, land of free books, and $1 books, which are essentially free, and locally-owned bookstores at which buying books is a philosophical act, really, so it should be allowed...Anyways,) this is one of those years. And this is one of those books that happened to be sitting around. I was excited to get back to my SF/F roots after a couple of years of heavy “literary fiction” reading, but unfortunately, this was not far enough removed from a life of SF/F reading to stand out.
Miss Peregrine's home is simply generic fantasy. Cliches can be nice if they're good renditions, but this isn't really. There is not a single memorable or unique element. It's fine. Nothing more or less, but fine.
The disclaimer here is that I'm not particularly visual, so I wasn't super into the photographs. I wanted a good story, not a bland story with 10 or 20 old photos that were occasionally spooky thrown in but not particularly tied to the plot in any way or really crowbar-ed in. People who like old and/or creepy photos may enjoy more.
Absolutely amazing! I went into this book expecting a paranormal, thriller book and was pleasantly surprised to find out is was so much more. The pictures went with the narrative so well and I just really appreciated Ransom Rigg's writing style. I absolutely adored this book and I now need to get my hands on Hollow City.
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