Reviews tagging 'Death'

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

80 reviews

hayleythegoose's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Body horror, Death, Gun violence, Animal death, War, Murder, and Stalking

Moderate: Grief, Antisemitism, and Child death

Minor: Child abuse and Bullying

allbookedupwithrosie's review

adventurous dark emotional lighthearted mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

Lovely story of a boy on a journey to discover the truth behind his grandfathers tales. 

After seeing the tale unfold before his eyes on one unfortunate night, Jacob starts to wonder if the tales his grandfather had told as a child were truly true. 

Tag along alone on a adventure to the island where you will meet some very friendly peculiars and unravel a past that Jacob has never dreamed of knowing. 

Thoroughly enjoyed the characters and their peculiarities. Reminded me muchly of Percy and the Olympians and the adventure of discovering who Jacob is. 

Being honest, I saw the movie years ago and fell in love with seeing the characters come to life on the screen. The book however gave me a deeper understanding of the past and characteristics of the characters.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: War, Violence, and Death

spookily's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Death of parent, Death, Violence, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Excrement, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, and Murder

Moderate: War, Grief, Alcoholism, Antisemitism, Dementia, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, and Genocide

Minor: Abandonment, Child death, Drug use, Medical content, and Infidelity

prerazmisljavanje's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Confinement, Dementia, Deportation, Genocide, Body horror, Child death, Death, Adult/minor relationship, and Grief

Lik se smuva s bivšom devojkom svog dede. Ok

dev921's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Medical content, Animal death, Blood, Bullying, Child death, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, and War

cuppajoy's review against another edition

mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Grief, Alcoholism, and Child death

ilariasbizzera's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Violence

Minor: War, Antisemitism, Genocide, Mental illness, and Blood

miss_granger07's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol and Death

Minor: Mental illness

readin_slump's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

I stayed up whay to late reading this book becaus I had to know how it ended. It is one of those you can't put down and the pictruers in it thou I dont like having faces aded to the catacters still was a featuer I was enjoing more as the book whent on. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Murder

Moderate: War

koberreads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective relaxing sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Review: One of the best fiction books regarding how our individuality, even though might be a curse or something to fear by other people, is also something they are compelled by, even if they don't admit it. 

 

We should focus more on how wonderful and interesting our differences are rather than derive hate and fear from them. 

 

It is also a story about the eternal need in all of us, no matter how small to live forever, in paradise, even at times we would wish we are gods as well and are unaffected by death. But death is a part of life, not the opposite of it even time loops that seem to escape or make death invalid, from the very words of Ms. Peregine herself, only delay it. 

 

Death gives life meaning. Therefore removing, death will truly make life meaningless or if not, maybe we become monsters in our desire to live like death is not part of life, like the hollowgast and wights. Maybe not physically a monster but just internally slowly. 

 

Read the whole series, you won't regret it. It is for all ages. This is just the tip of the iceberg.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death of parent, Medical trauma, Death, and War