Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

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Do you like horror movies? Do you love to experience fearful and exciting journeys? The book Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children  by Ransom Riggs will absolutely grab your attention. I am not a fan of horror stories and definitely not those types of movies. However, this book fascinated me, and here I am writing a blog about it!

Peculiar Children tells a story about a boy named Jacob Portman. When he was little, his grandpa always told him stories about fairies and monsters when he fled from the war in England and went to Miss Peregrine’s Home. Jacob didn’t believe these stories until his grandpa was killed one day by the monsters he mentioned before his death. He went on a trip to a Welsh island where the home was.  The truth came out, but it was never what he expected.

In this story, Jacob enters a loop where peculiar children and Miss Peregrine re-live the same day, September 3, 1940,  over and over again, but have different experiences every day. Jacob finds this place mysterious and interesting, but he wouldn’t stay because he couldn’t stand the the life of living the same day forever. However, things do not turn out the way they expect.

I feel like this book speaks in a different manner compared to a lot of other fiction books like the City of Bones and the Hunger Games series. Maybe it’s because we have a male author, maybe it’s not. Even though most of the boys now don’t read a lot, I would still recommend this book to them.  If you are like me, who is scared of all the horror movies, don’t worry, this is not as bad as you think it is. This book may have a fascinating and frightening outline, but its background is not as pleasing as it seems.  Out of a scale of 1 to 5, 1 being sleeping with the night light on and 5 being watching over your shoulder during daylight, I would give it a negative 1.

 

2 comments

  1. Nice job on your first blog, Rachel! I love this book and I definitely agree with your about how it’s suitable for people who aren’t into the horror genre normally and would probably be good for a male audience as well. Your blog is a nice overview of the plot and makes me want to reread the book again! 🙂

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