Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children - Ransom Riggs

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

By Ransom Riggs

  • Release Date: 2011-06-07
  • Genre: Horror, Monsters & Ghosts
Score: 4.5
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Description

The #1 New York Times best-selling series
 
An abandoned orphanage on a mysterious island holds the key to supernatural secrets in this unusual and original first book in the one-of-a-kind Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children series 

A captivating blend of horror, dark fantasy, paranormal mystery, and time travel brought to life with more than 50 haunting vintage photographs 

eBook Bonus Features: 
• A Q&A with author Ransom Riggs 
• Eight pages of color stills from the Tim Burton film 
• A sneak preview of Hollow City, the next novel in the series

When a devastating family tragedy propels sixteen-year-old Jacob on a journey to a remote island off the coast of Wales, he stumbles upon the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. As he explores the abandoned rooms, he uncovers a chilling truth—these children were not just peculiar, they were potentially dangerous, and they may have been quarantined for a reason. Trapped on this desolate island, their supernatural abilities and the mysteries surrounding them deepen. Impossibly, they may still be alive, their existence defying the laws of time and nature. 

A spine-tingling fantasy illustrated with a strange collection of historical photographs, this unforgettable novel will delight adults, teens, and anyone who relishes an adventure in the shadows.

“A tense, moving, and wondrously strange first novel. The photographs and text work together brilliantly to create an unforgettable story.”—John Green, New York Times best-selling author of The Fault in Our Stars

“Riggs deftly moves between fantasy and reality, prose and photography to create an enchanting and at times positively terrifying story.”—Associated Press

“You’ll love it if you want a good thriller for the summer. It’s a mystery, and you’ll race to solve it before Jacob figures it out for himself.”—Seventeen

“One of the coolest, creepiest YA books.”—PopSugar

Reviews

  • Amazing book

    5
    By matthew sheffield
    I read the book after finding out the movie was based on a book, I watched the movie as a kid and found out after wanting to rewatch it their was a whole series so I figured I’d give it a try and I think it was one of my favorite books I’ve read and that it is drastically better than the movie. The style differences with Emma and Olive through me off at first but I got used to it after a while, but this book is amazing and is worth the read.

  • Awesome

    5
    By Anna-Sofie2011
    This book is really interesting, but there was a lot of cussing -BookBrynn

  • GOOD

    4
    By fhchxbx
    I’m currently writing a book and it’s really good but this is even better not recommended if you or your parents don’t want you to read books with a lot of cuss words.

  • Whimsical and attention grabbing

    4
    By Hdjekksjak
    I loved the characters and abilities in this series I’m on my second read through and had to express my joy of the characters and story

  • Love this Book!

    5
    By EmmaPortman
    I read it quite a few times. For myself, then with my husband and children. It’s a page turner. And an amazing story with History, time travel, odd and delightful characters. You can’t help but get sucked into the Peculiar world!

  • Very good, confusing ending

    3
    By Addison11111
    This book was very interesting. Throughout reading it made me get excited for the ending but as I got closer I got more and more confused. The ending was disappointing, I thought it would be more than what it was. But overall it was a good book, I won’t be reading the others though.

  • I love it

    1
    By Kagehina_2.0
    I watched the movie an read the book both of them are AMAZING!! I really hope there are more books like this one I love this!

  • Didn’t read but loved the movie

    5
    By 2ai.
    I didn’t read the book but the movie was amazing.

  • Unique premise that will steal your heart

    5
    By TanyaEm
    The House in the Cerulean Sea + Back to the Future + Groundhog Day + The Diary of Anne Frank Jacob Portman grew up listening to his grandfather’s stories. Some were horrific, with his family being hunted by the Nazis. Some were fantastical, like the island of peculiar children where he went when he was saved. Peculiar, like the boy that had bees living inside of him. All had pictures to go with it. As he grows up, Jacob starts to think the photos are doctored and the stories are just stories. What will it take for him to believe? I hear people use the phrase “felt like I was coming home” a lot. That’s the best way I can describe a lot of the books I reread. There’s something so comforting about the book--from the cover to the characters, and in this book, the photos. If you go to Ransom’s IG, he did a fantabulous live last Friday, where he gave us the original ideas (it was originally going to be an illustrated poetry book, like Amphigorey). Again, I can’t praise this book enough. Not only are the characters and world extremely well-fleshed out, but Ransom has done a totally unique thing by shaping his story around old vintage photos he found. I’m extremely sad that just as I’m coming back to the series, the final book comes out next month. Buy this book for yourself or someone looking to get lost in time. If you’re twisted, get it for someone who says pictures are for kids’ books.

  • Loved it👌

    5
    By dr dre 999
    I couldn’t get enough of it and got so into it the second I started reading the books.

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