Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

I must admit this book was a bit of a challenging read for me this week. I ran into a few days where my migraines got bad enough that I passed out and in turn lost days worth of short term memory. ITS JUST GONE. I finally am back to remembering and my flatmates and boyfriend caught me up on all the things I didn't remember.
To show how quickly the memory was leaving, I received a late birthday present and not only didn't recall receiving it... I didn't recall receiving it four separate times. At least I seem to be consistent though, as I apparently had the same reaction to it each time. haha.
I shall be trying to do more reading and watching of movies this week while I am out dogsitting.



Title: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Author: Ransom Riggs

This book is quite well done. The first thing I have to say about it is that it is worth checking out if for no other reason than the photos within it.

I am a complete and utter sucker for these kind of vintage and manipulated photos, as well as pitch cards from sideshows and circuses around the world. This book has at least 30 such images. I love them all.

The story follows a boy named Jacob who is sixteen. He gets sent on an adventure to uncover the truth about his grandfathers past and discovers many strange and compelling things. Both about his grandfather and himself. I am quite happy to say that this story focuses less on the hocus pocus sort of magic but more on the unknown, and in doing so makes the magical elements seem not commonplace but instead misunderstood and still within the boundaries of our world.

I will definitely be reading more of this series, and I hope to watch the movie to compare very soon. It is a quite wonderful work of young adult fiction.

Find it here: https://www.amazon.com/Miss-Peregrines-Home-Peculiar-Children/dp/1594746036/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1404317948&sr=8-3&keywords=ransom+riggs

ISBN: 978-1-59474-603-1