Young adult book or not (was this really a young adult book?), all the elements of an enjoyable, suspense-laden adventure were there. The cushy suburban-wasteland childhood into which the supernatural creeps, an isolated, craggy island off the coast of Wales, mysterious last words from a mysterious old man... It wasn't a deep book, but the story hurtles forward and it's so much fun it's hard to put down.
-Kristin
I had to wait quite a while for Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs to finally arrive at the library. I think the long wait was justified. It was a pretty fun read.
The story follows a young man who journeys to an island where the home for peculiar children is located - a place his grandfather used to tell him stories about. When his grandfather dies he goes on a journey to understand his grandfather's past and finds that his stories were perhaps not the fairy tales he and his family wrote them off as.
A fun thing about this book is that it has a lot of photos throughout, which are real vintage photographs that various photo enthusiasts have collected. It's a very neat idea to throw in old pictures and bring them back to life.
I've been reading a lot of young adult fantasy fiction lately! It's funny it's a genre I've ignored, even when I was a young adult, for the most part. But there's some entertaining stuff out there. Now, this was no Harry Potter by any means, but it was still quite good!
- Megan Leigh
2 comments:
I thought you had read this already. We talked about you and your friends coming from there. Maybe someone else had read it.
Well, it sounds like I must request this book. Two good reviews, plus Josh's.
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