Edit on January 9th, 2016: I haven't thought about *Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children* since I read it in July, and I really have no interest anymore in reading the rest of the series. ----------It definitely was a slow-moving book, but the plot really held my attention, and I loved the use of the pictures. Sometimes I felt like Ransom Riggs tried a little too hard to make the pictures perfectly fit into the story, which made it a little awkward to read, but they still made the reading...

Yo, I came for the horror, but got the fluffy stuff with Ransom Riggs' *Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children*. If you're looking for scary book reviews, maybe look elsewhere. This one's more weird than terrifying, but still a fun read.

My grandfather had described it a hundred times, but in his stories the house was always a bright, happy place—big and rambling, yes, but full of light and laughter. What stood before me now was no refuge from monsters, but a monster itself, staring down from its perch on the hill with vacant hunger. Trees burst forth from broken windows and skins of scabrous vine gnawed at the walls like antibodies attacking a virus—as if nature itself had waged war against it—but the house seemed unkillable...

When I was a kid, one of my favorite things was flipping through picture books – you know, those children's books, coloring books, etc. – and making up stories in my head based on the images. Like, a picture of two kids holding hands would kick off a whole story about friendship, which would then grow with each new picture, bringing in bigger plots, dragons, unicorns, whatever the pictures suggested.Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children reminds me of that.But honestly, this story felt tota...

Everyone's been buzzing about Ransom Riggs's *Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children*, and honestly, it deserves every bit of hype it's getting, especially for how it weaves these incredibly eerie antique photographs right into the story. The setup is fantastic: Jacob's childhood was filled with his grandfather's unbelievable tales of escaping World War II and finding refuge on a remote Welsh island. This island was home to an orphanage specifically for kids with extraordinary abilities. An...

I'm just not sure I "get" all the hype surrounding *Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children*. I read it years ago when it first came out and was **thoroughly unimpressed**. Now, after reading it a second time, my opinion hasn't changed a bit. A few creepy pictures and some oddball characters don't automatically make a horror story, and frankly, that's all this is. It's a book *about* stories, and it spends way too much time focusing on the storytelling itself instead of actually developing ...

I can't even.It's just so upsetting to see a good idea executed so poorly.The main problem with this book is that the entire time I was reading **Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children** by Ransom Riggs, I felt like a high school English teacher grading a student's paper – and I'm not a teacher or someone who majored in English or writing. If *I'm* thinking this as a normal reader, then who the hell was the editor? Didn't they bring up these issues? Clearly, the several people the author li...

This is kinda like, uh... a hipster Harry Potter. And honestly? I'm here for it! I really enjoyed it. There are tons of super cool vintage photographs that give it this whole turn-of-the-century circus sideshow vibe. I absolutely loved the world Ransom Riggs created in *Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children*, and the overall feel of the book is just fantastic. Definitely a unique read for fans of peculiar books!

Let me tell you a secret: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs is actually:(I don't think what follows is a spoiler, but I'm marking it as such anyway because some people think it is.) for elementary school kids.Yes, the book tries to pretend it's something else, dressing itself up with creepy and weird vintage photographsbut the reality is, it’s nothing more than a regurgitated version of X-Men.Rarely do I come across a book that misses the mark as badly as this one. You ...

This book, *Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children* by Ransom Riggs, kicks off with a serious punch. It's genuinely creepy, exciting, and totally intriguing right from the start, but honestly, it kind of loses steam after that initial burst. Once the mystery surrounding the house is revealed – and it happens pretty quickly and without much subtlety – it transforms into a surprisingly boring and almost childish story, which I definitely wasn't expecting. I was hoping for something more sophi...