“I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.”
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs (Quirk Books, 2011)
(Miss Peregrine, Book 1)
Genre: Horror, Modern Fantasy, Romance
Honors: ALA Teens' Top Ten Nominee (2012), The Kitschies Nominee for Golden Tentacle (Debut) (2011) [Honors Information found at Goodreads.com]
Review: As a young child Jacob had always been captivated by his grandfather's stories of a strange orphanage on a mysterious island where the children could do impossible things like float, or summon fire out of nowhere. As Jacob became older he stopped believe his grandfather's eccentric tales until one night when he saw some sort of monster lurking in the night after the grisly muder of his grandfather. Now Jacob is obsessed with discovering the truth and the only way to do so is to visit the island and find the old orphanage. Jacob never thought that he would discover that the children would still be there, trapped in time.
Opinion: I really like this book, but I was a little disappointed with the horror aspect. I thought it would have far more horror type aspects to it, but it came off as more of a fantasy. Regardless, it was still good, it was still fun, and it was quite original.
Ideas: This book would be good to give to a boy or a girl who like original fantasy tales. You night be able to pass this off as a light horror teen novel, but it's really not.
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