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3.75 AVERAGE
3.75 AVERAGE
After watching the film i decided to continue this book because i stopped reading this book for awhile because i'm always busy and lot of school works but after seeing the film i was so curious on how it's played in the book so i just jumped in and read it and it was AMAZING! i really enjoyed it much better than the book. The writing was great and i loved how Ransom used these creepy/cool images to show us readers what he's describing or the story behind that picture and i loved these characters Jacob was so much better here than the movie and I HATED HOW THEY SWITCHED EMMA AND OLIVE'S PECULIARITY!!!!! LIKE WHY??? WHY TIM BURTON!!? so again i really liked this book the concept was amazing and i'm excited to read the next book! :) and join their next adventures :)
adventurous
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:
Complicated
Peculiar is an excellent descriptor for this story. It is quirky, surprising and just all around odd......yet extremely charming? And fun to read? And a story I would love to read again? Listen, I'm not an expert book reviewer and I cannot explain fully the magic which is Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, but I can tell you with full certainty, this story is magic and one just about everyone should read.
dark
sad
tense
medium-paced
⭐ 1.0
Dropped it after maybe half of a book. It's just boring idk. I hoped it would be creepy and mysterious. It's really not. Nothing even remotely creepy about it. And I have hard time reading stories from kids perspective honestly, so idk why I thought it would be for me...
Dropped it after maybe half of a book. It's just boring idk. I hoped it would be creepy and mysterious. It's really not. Nothing even remotely creepy about it. And I have hard time reading stories from kids perspective honestly, so idk why I thought it would be for me...
The ending made me bump it up to a four stars!
Loved this book!
Loved this book!
Wow. The moment I opened this book, I was mesmerized that I have to slowly turn the first pages, gazing at it rather dazedly like I was opening a portal to a mysterious place that is filled with adventures and eerie encounters.
Once I read the first line of the prologue, I knew I can never stop reading until I finished it. Everything is beautiful especially the photographs, they can be eerie but I guess that’s what make them beautiful. I feel like I’m watching a documentary or a movie and it sort of pauses when the pictures were shown. Jacob’s journey to the abandoned orphanage is one of my favorite scenes. I could imagine myself exploring the place. I love abandoned places or buildings but I could never have the courage to go to one and explore on my own that’s why I just leave the work to my imagination.
I also like the little romance, if it’s okay to call it like that, between Jacob and Emma though it’s right for Jacob to have doubts about Emma’s real feelings because of his grandfather. Their scenes are nice and simple. There are also the peculiar children with different characteristics. I didn’t expect that they really have some very unique abilities. I thought their peculiarities were based on how they lived their lives as children.
But what captivated me the most is the connection of Jacob and his grandfather. His grief for what happened to his grandfather is so realistic. I could understand his doubts about his grandfather’s stories as he grew up. I think that’s the ugly part of growing up. We have to say goodbye to fairytales and welcome the reality of life. But it’s already too late when he realized that his grandfather’s stories are no fairytales.
I started thinking of the author and the possibility of a sequel when I finished the book but I realized that it’s okay to leave it like that. Reading the book was like a nice joy ride. Everything is smooth and entertaining.
P.S. I just read that there would be a sequel and a movie adaptation of this book.
Once I read the first line of the prologue, I knew I can never stop reading until I finished it. Everything is beautiful especially the photographs, they can be eerie but I guess that’s what make them beautiful. I feel like I’m watching a documentary or a movie and it sort of pauses when the pictures were shown. Jacob’s journey to the abandoned orphanage is one of my favorite scenes. I could imagine myself exploring the place. I love abandoned places or buildings but I could never have the courage to go to one and explore on my own that’s why I just leave the work to my imagination.
I also like the little romance, if it’s okay to call it like that, between Jacob and Emma though it’s right for Jacob to have doubts about Emma’s real feelings because of his grandfather. Their scenes are nice and simple. There are also the peculiar children with different characteristics. I didn’t expect that they really have some very unique abilities. I thought their peculiarities were based on how they lived their lives as children.
But what captivated me the most is the connection of Jacob and his grandfather. His grief for what happened to his grandfather is so realistic. I could understand his doubts about his grandfather’s stories as he grew up. I think that’s the ugly part of growing up. We have to say goodbye to fairytales and welcome the reality of life. But it’s already too late when he realized that his grandfather’s stories are no fairytales.
I started thinking of the author and the possibility of a sequel when I finished the book but I realized that it’s okay to leave it like that. Reading the book was like a nice joy ride. Everything is smooth and entertaining.
P.S. I just read that there would be a sequel and a movie adaptation of this book.
I've heard a lot of different books lauded as "the next Harry Potter" -- from YA titles like [b:Eragon|113436|Eragon (The Inheritance Cycle, #1)|Christopher Paolini|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1366212852s/113436.jpg|3178011], [b:The Lightning Thief|28187|The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)|Rick Riordan|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1361038385s/28187.jpg|3346751], [b:Twilight|41865|Twilight (Twilight, #1)|Stephenie Meyer|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1361039443s/41865.jpg|3212258], and [b:The Hunger Games|2767052|The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games #1)|Suzanne Collins|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1358275334s/2767052.jpg|2792775], to speculative fiction works such as [b:The Name of the Wind|186074|The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)|Patrick Rothfuss|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1270352123s/186074.jpg|2502879] and [b:The Magicians|6101718|The Magicians (The Magicians, #1)|Lev Grossman|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1313772941s/6101718.jpg|6278977]. But I have never heard that buzz for this book. In fact, I had thought this was a horror (the cover art is very reminiscent of movies like The Ring and Woman in Black).
Despite the lack of buzz, this book should be compared favorably to Harry Potter, with the material, tone and writing all lending themselves to the lofty comparisons. Of course, with a movie based on the book being optioned, they may soon come, but with Tim Burton slated to direct, that too may be mismarketed as a horror story.
As for the book's story, it is told from the point-of-view of Jacob, a teenager who discovers long lost secrets from his grandfather's past that come back to shape his future. I won't give away specifics from the plot, but it reads as a mix of the above-mentioned Harry Potter and The Magicians, and also shares a lot of similarities with X-Men.
One thing that did bother me was that the book ended with the start of a journey -- I haven't seen a sequel set-up this obvious since watching Mortal Kombat.
As for the photographs, I understand that they were the inspiration that eventually led to the writing of the book, but I believe the author would have been better served by removing the photos altogether (and describing them in better detail) or lumping them together in the middle or end of the book. Having them inserted throughout the story kept pulling me out of the narrative. Also, the pictures looked terrible on the Kindle for PC app, and I am certain they would have looked even worse on my physical Kindle.
Despite the lack of buzz, this book should be compared favorably to Harry Potter, with the material, tone and writing all lending themselves to the lofty comparisons. Of course, with a movie based on the book being optioned, they may soon come, but with Tim Burton slated to direct, that too may be mismarketed as a horror story.
As for the book's story, it is told from the point-of-view of Jacob, a teenager who discovers long lost secrets from his grandfather's past that come back to shape his future. I won't give away specifics from the plot, but it reads as a mix of the above-mentioned Harry Potter and The Magicians, and also shares a lot of similarities with X-Men.
One thing that did bother me was that the book ended with the start of a journey -- I haven't seen a sequel set-up this obvious since watching Mortal Kombat.
As for the photographs, I understand that they were the inspiration that eventually led to the writing of the book, but I believe the author would have been better served by removing the photos altogether (and describing them in better detail) or lumping them together in the middle or end of the book. Having them inserted throughout the story kept pulling me out of the narrative. Also, the pictures looked terrible on the Kindle for PC app, and I am certain they would have looked even worse on my physical Kindle.
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
The plot was interesting, the potential was there, but it just wasn't executed very well. I adore the characters so much but I just couldn't get attatched to them. I was so close to DNFing this book, everything was just a drag. I didn't like the movie, and I don't like the book.
adventurous
dark
mysterious
medium-paced