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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #1)

Ransom Riggs

Start date: September 1, 2012

Finish date: September 30, 2012

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Jul 31, 2012 Nadine in NY Jones rated it liked it

Shelves: young-adult, era-world-war-2, fantasy-and-sci-fi, alternate-planes-and-histories, carnivals-and-circuses

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This was not what I expected. Which leads me to wonder what it was I expected, and then try to contrast that with what it was that I found instead.

I guess what I expected was an exciting, engaging, adventurous, magical story involving a houseful of fairy sprites existing in an alternate plane. And what I got was an adventure story about a houseful of dull and peculiar children existing in a sort of alternate plane, but it was neither engaging nor ...more

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Mar 15, 2015 Ashley rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: youngadultfiction, series, 2015-reading-challenge

I read this book because my mom got it for me . She got it for me because I had expressed a weird interest in old mental institutions from the early 1900's when they did experiments on their patients rather then actually help treat them.

This was a bizarre read for me and I mean that in a good way . It's like a combination of genres; YA, horror, mystery, etc. The novel kind of creeped me out lol . I almost stopped reading it because I was afraid I was gonna get nightmares from reading it . I kno ...more

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Nov 21, 2011 Astrid Lim rated it really liked it

Shelves: bbi, thriller-mystery, young-adult, fantasy, world-war, gothic, cover-lust

Don't judge a book by its cover! Miss Peregrine is actually not that scary, despite the quirky and creepy photographs =) But the story itself is warm, charming, and full of mysterious air. Love it, and can't wait for the sequel! ...more

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Jan 28, 2013 Erica rated it it was amazing

Oodles of fun. Perhaps best aimed at a mid-teen audience, but a great read for adults as well. Waiting for the movie, which seems like it could be better, scarier, and more thrilling than the Harry Potter enterprise! Love the quiet comment running through the book of accepting human difference but critiquing deliberate genetic modification.

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Dec 16, 2015 Lori rated it really liked it

Shelves: young-adult, fantasy

I don't know if it's because I was able to read this book pool-side without any interruption but I just got lost in this book. So much so that I finished it in one day! Yay me!!! I loved the old pictures the Riggs used to craft his story. He did a fine job creating a strange world (actually, a peculiar world) that seemed totally believable to us commoners. There were many spots of tension and mystery that kept me reading. The characters, odd as they were, were believable and written in such a wa ...more

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Oct 06, 2012 Darci rated it liked it

I thought the idea/theme of the book was creative. Kept thinking that the main character seemed younger than his stated age, so I'm not sure my teenagers would enjoy. ...more

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Oct 29, 2014 Madeleine rated it it was ok

Shelves: kids-ya, speculative-fiction, series

Eh. I don't really understand the hype, but I guess this was a decent creepy book to read while hiding from my Least Favorite Holiday. ...more

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Jul 13, 2016 Ali rated it liked it · review of another edition

Very well-written.

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Jun 15, 2013 Anie rated it liked it

Shelves: childrens-and-ya, sff, male-author, fiction, 2013, male-protagonist, used-to-own

This was an enjoyable read---I devoured it in about two hours of plane travel. The combination of vintage photos and a thoughtful, quirky story worked welll. I loved the island in Wales, the time travel was fantastic, and I look forward to seeing how the story ends in the next installment.

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Mar 08, 2012 alana rated it it was amazing

Shelves: ebook, art-lessons, young-adult

I love how this story relates to using found photos as inspiration for creative writing! The result is a fun fantasy read with some creepy characters and haunting images.

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