Scholastic Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children #1: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
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Description: A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. And a strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience. Scholastic Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children #1: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
Category: Books
Merchant: Scholastic
Product ID: 114240
ISBN: 9781594746031
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Author: H
Rating: 5
Review: I am a photographer looking for different ways that photography is used in fiction - from actual photographs to stories about photographs or photographers - which is how I came across this book. I was not expecting to enjoy this as much as I did but it was phenomenal with beautiful metaphors about monsters both made up and the monstrous acts of men.
Author: M. Dowden
Rating: 3
Review: To be honest I did find this a little disappointing and there are a number of problems in the plot, such as a lighthouse shining out its light in the middle of the Second World War, even whilst the area is being bombed. There is a similar problem with the time loop, and indeed even after one has been destroyed, we seem to still be in 1940. There are some other quibbles as well, which contradict what we have been told previously. Anyway, with that aside the biggest problem is that this book arguably does not know what it wants to be, it is aimed at the young adult market, although if you took out the swearing for instance you can see that this is really for a younger market than that, both by the style of writing and other elements, making this a bit clumsy and a hodgepodge affair. Written in the first person narrative so we meet American teenager Jacob who has grown up with the tall tales of his grandfather, but when the old man is found dead, so the stories start to become a bit more real. With our hero thus managing to get his father to take him to a relatively isolated island off the coast of Wales so he finds the orphanage that his grandfather spent time at. Now an abandoned and derelict building so Jacob manages to travel back in time and enter the building back on 3rd September 1940, the night of which saw the building destroyed by a bombing raid. As Jacob meets the characters his grandfather told him about, so we follow what happens, as they come under threat from others who are evil and want to use the peculiar children. The story does give us some good characterisation at times, but a lot of the action/horror scenes are not that original, and I am sure many can come up with books or films where they have read or seen something similar. At times this seems to drift between something a bit more aimed at the teen market, and then drops into Famous Five territory. As such I found this an okay read as such, and indeed it did pass a couple of undemanding hours, but as to reading more in the series, then for me the answer is most definitely a no. This particular book gives us an ending of sorts, but things are left up in the air so as the story can continue. The best thing I found about this novel was really the photos which are at times more interesting than the tale about them.
