Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, Bk 1)
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Genres: Children's Books, Teen & Young Adult
Book Type: Hardcover
Author:
Genres: Children's Books, Teen & Young Adult
Book Type: Hardcover
Spoiler Alert: This review may contain one or more spoilers. There is definitely something peculiar about Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. Unfortunately for this review the peculiar part is the utterly baffling dilemma this book presented. I will break this down into the good and the bad.
Good
1. Ransom Riggs is a delightful writer. He has a way of using his words and sentences to create magic. I was entranced and fascinated by every word. I was hoping with every fiber of my being that the plot would live up to that promise.
2. The pictures included in this story add a lot of intrigue and ingenuity to the story that is unique among books of its kind.
3. The first 150 pages of this book are absolutely fantastic! The stories and pictures will draw you in and make you want to skip the rest just to find out how the mystery ends.
Bad
1. The main character, Jacob, is very hard to like. He is a spoiled rich kid who does nothing except complain about how pointless and boring his life is. I could not sympathize with him and so I didn't really care about what he had to say.
2. After the first 150-200 pages there is no more mystery. All the secrets have been revealed and all the only thing left to tell is the end of the story. Unfortunately you don't get the end of the story, you get a cliffhanger after 100 pages of drama that was too predictable to be entertaining. It's like when you're having a conversation and want so badly to hear the end of your friend's story and then the call cuts out. That is about how the end of this book felt to me.
3. While the idea of the time loops was interesting, it wasn't explained enough so that the ending made any sense. To me, it felt like conflicting information and I didn't get it and by that point I didn't really care that I didn't understand.
4. At the end of the day I have to be as interested in the end of a book as the beginning in order to be interested in reading a sequel or the next in the series. This book fell sadly short of that. The beginning was so fantastic but I was so bored by the end that I just didn't care any longer. And that is ultimately how I feel about a sequel, all my interesting and caring was used up by the end of this one to bother.
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Good
1. Ransom Riggs is a delightful writer. He has a way of using his words and sentences to create magic. I was entranced and fascinated by every word. I was hoping with every fiber of my being that the plot would live up to that promise.
2. The pictures included in this story add a lot of intrigue and ingenuity to the story that is unique among books of its kind.
3. The first 150 pages of this book are absolutely fantastic! The stories and pictures will draw you in and make you want to skip the rest just to find out how the mystery ends.
Bad
1. The main character, Jacob, is very hard to like. He is a spoiled rich kid who does nothing except complain about how pointless and boring his life is. I could not sympathize with him and so I didn't really care about what he had to say.
2. After the first 150-200 pages there is no more mystery. All the secrets have been revealed and all the only thing left to tell is the end of the story. Unfortunately you don't get the end of the story, you get a cliffhanger after 100 pages of drama that was too predictable to be entertaining. It's like when you're having a conversation and want so badly to hear the end of your friend's story and then the call cuts out. That is about how the end of this book felt to me.
3. While the idea of the time loops was interesting, it wasn't explained enough so that the ending made any sense. To me, it felt like conflicting information and I didn't get it and by that point I didn't really care that I didn't understand.
4. At the end of the day I have to be as interested in the end of a book as the beginning in order to be interested in reading a sequel or the next in the series. This book fell sadly short of that. The beginning was so fantastic but I was so bored by the end that I just didn't care any longer. And that is ultimately how I feel about a sequel, all my interesting and caring was used up by the end of this one to bother.
Note: All reviews also posted to my Goodreads profile
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