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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

37 reviews

anna978's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, and Blood

Moderate: Antisemitism and War

Minor: Child death

wynterwonderland's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Animal death, Blood, and Death

Moderate: Alcohol, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , War, Gun violence, Antisemitism, Fire/Fire injury, and Murder

Minor: Incest

kyumgi's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I've been looking forward to reading this series for years, and I'm greatly impressed with the first book. The writing was vivid and detailed, and it was easy to imagine the scenes playing out in my head as I read them. I wouldn't say this book is "medium-paced" but slow to start, and fast towards the end. 

I wished to see some development in Jacob's father since all of the scenes he's in are incredibly depressing, but given that this book focuses on the child protagonists, I understand why he's just another adult background character. 

The mix of real history (which felt carefully and appropriately discussed) and fantasy was engaging. And I liked that for the mystery elements, there was enough to figure out major points in the story before they were explicitly stated.

The doctor being the twist villain was super entertaining, and his death scene was graphic but cool.

 

My only criticisms are 1. this book is in the perspective of a privileged, rich white boy, so things like casual ableism are present, especially in the "before" normal life part of the book, and 2. some of the fast, tense parts of the story fall into classic Y/A tropes, which isn't bad at all, but it feels like there's some things weirdly missing. Some of the conflicts that would seem like a big deal were resolved in one or two lines, which I'm not sure I enjoyed. Either way, this was an incredibly engaging read and I can't wait to start on the second book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Moderate: Antisemitism and War

Minor: Ableism, Child death, and Dementia

merah's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

The entire storytelling is genius. At first glance it seems like a regular book. But once you grasp the hidden meaning it opens up a whole new world. Absolutely incredible. 
The characters are delightful and I love how they each have a backstory. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Bullying, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Grief, War, Violence, Racism, Police brutality, Physical abuse, and Murder

Moderate: Abandonment, Stalking, and Child abuse

Age difference :

not sure if this counts, as Emma and Jacob are both 16 physically, but Emma is technically the same age as Jacob's grandfather...

filo's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence and Death

Moderate: Kidnapping

Minor: Genocide and Antisemitism

amradio's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

It's been a while since I've read this book as I own the first two in the series and while I will consider reading the second since I already own it I'm unsure if the series is worth continuing
The book was dreadfully boring and slow paced for most of it and found myself almost forcing myself to finish it
The idea is interesting enough but the execution and pacing was horridly slow
The ending or near it was practically the only fast paced part

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, and Violence

Moderate: Alcoholism, Antisemitism, Mental illness, and War

Minor: Child death

the_pysselfia's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Ableism, Antisemitism, Death, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Grief, Genocide, Gun violence, and War

a_ira's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore

Moderate: Antisemitism

paulina_laukova's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, War, Death, Violence, and Gore

Moderate: Antisemitism and Child death

Minor: Excrement

lucithefer's review against another edition

fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism

Moderate: Child death

Minor: Antisemitism

ableism toward psychotic/schizophrenic people, negativity toward therapy, ableism toward mental illness