Genre: Young Adult / FantasyOriginally Published: June 4, 2013
Pages: 353
Price: £10.49 (Hardback from Amazon)
£6.29 (Paperback from Amazon)
£5.98 (Kindle Edition)
Publisher: Quirk Books
Series: Miss Peregrine's Children
Source: Bought
About the book (Taken from the blurb):
A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of peculiar 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 decaying bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that Miss Peregrine's 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.
My review - *SPOILERS*
Now this is a good book. I'm pretty sure this may now be my favourite book, or an incredibly close second, And the photography was just the icing on the cake.
I'm also pretty sure this is the fastest I've ever read a book. It only took me two days and it's 353 pages long. That may be nothing to you, but it can take me weeks to read a book that big. I just couldn't stop reading. And I enjoyed every second of it.
The main character, Jacob, is the main source of perfection n this book. I haven't liked a main character this much since I read the Hobbit years ago. And, I suppose he's a bit like Bilbo, in a way... He's funny, he's smart, he's content with being on his own until he meets a group of weirdo's and tags along on their adventure. So why wouldn't I love Jacob? He's a combination of Bibo Baggins and one of the X-men, which is totally awesome. There's only one flaw with him, but we'll discuss that later.
The creepy photographs solved many problems for me. If I fail to get into a book, it's always due to the fact I have the same levels of creativity as a rather uncreative stone. That makes imagining a face for the characters a little tricky. Normally, unless I'm reading a book that has a film because I know what they all look like, all the characters are like ghosts. They look a bit like the guy in the automatic facebook profile picture. It's weird and it gets very confusing. You may think I'm joking, but I seriously thought I had something wrong with me for years. It made me abandon reading for the longest time; I just couldn't imagine the characters, which gets very frustrating. But now I'm older and I can remember thins a bit better, like names and what those characters did, it made having grey people a hell of a lot easier. Where was this book when I stopped reading? The pictures I need are conveniently there whenever I need them, plus the film trailer is everywhere lately which fills in the big gaps, like Jacob and Emma. That's probably why reading this book was so easy, because I didn't have to work very hard.
*This paragraph contains spoilers*
The only thing thing that bothered me was Jacob's willingness to leave his dad. His mum I understand because they didn't get on very well, but his dad was really sweet. Plus he's not going through the best of times at the moment, he's drinking a lot, he thinks his wife is going to leave him (which she is definitely going to do after he returns from a place that's thousands of miles away without her son), he thinks his dad didn't love him and he thinks his son's really sick... A lot of things aren't going right in his life and the next thing he'll do is wake up thinking he's had the strangest dream, and see that his son's disappeared. Now, I don't know much about being good child, because I'm probably not one most of the time, but I know Jacob isn't one of them either. My opinion of him changed a little when he left his dad like that, and yeah, he's still cool, just not 'HOLY COW, THAT KID'S AWESOME!!' kind of cool anymore. Maybe it's just me that thought so strongly about this, but I really hope he goes back and sees his dad in the next book. It's probably because me and my dad are so close that I'm a bit taken aback.
Other than that, this book was perfection. Utter Perfection. If you haven't read this book yet then you seriously have to, it's awesome and well worthy of five stars.
Have you read this trilogy yet? Does anyone else struggle to read with their lack of creativity? Shocked at how Jacob handled his dad? I'd love to hear what you think!
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