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Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
by Ransom Riggs
We cling to our fairy tales until the price of believing them becomes too high.
~Jacob

Jacob Portman grew up devouring the bizarre stories his grandfather told him about growing up with peculiar children and fighting monsters. As a worshiping child, Jacob believed him. Then, finding that his grandfather had created a fairy tale life to explain the horrors of WWII to himself, Jacob stopped believing. Besides, stories about super strong children, floating girls, and invisible boys just couldn't be true, could they?

When his grandfather calls him in a panic, 16 year old Jacob goes to calm him down. He finds Grandpa Portman dying in the woods with a cryptic message. Then he sees it—the monster from his grandfather’s stories.

The trauma triggers night terrors and anxiety that prompts Jacob’s parents to take him to a psychiatrist, Dr. Golan. He urges Jacob to seek out his grandfather’s past, so that he can confront reality. His search leads him to the Welsh island of Cairnholm. Then Jacob must separate the truth from the lies. 

Allow Ransom Riggs to haunt you with his tale of monsters and peculiar children. He intertwines the story with actual photographs from the past, giving it a three dimensional feel of reality. The eerie Tim Burton-esque quality enthralls readers, scintillating them with the answers to the unexplained oddities we find in sepia-toned snapshots.

I rarely read any book more than once and enjoy it. This proved to be an exception. I read it a second time to refresh myself on the story before I dove into the Hollow City. I love this book just as much the second time if not more. This time instead of watching the story unfold, I could pick up on the small details that foreshadowed what was to come.

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children is definitely worth a read or twenty.

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