{"id":295,"date":"2011-06-07T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=295"},"modified":"2013-11-10T07:42:38","modified_gmt":"2013-11-10T13:42:38","slug":"miss-peregrines-home-for-peculiar-children-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=295","title":{"rendered":"Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, by Ransom Riggs (book review) – monsters are real"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"bookUntil it’s grown, you don’t known if that weedy stuff is crabgrass<\/a> or horrible, clawing grassburrs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Likewise, Jacob didn’t realize that the monsters that Grandpa warned him about were real until it was too late, as he looks up from the dying man to see the horrifying creature…and the monster sees<\/i> Jacob.<\/p>\n

Author Ransom Riggs started collecting old photos<\/a> some years ago, drawn to the captions often written on them. For the most peculiar images, he began inventing their backstories<\/a> and what the oddest captions might have been.<\/p>\n

In this thriller, Riggs’ imagination has gone far beyond those idea seeds planted by the old photos<\/a>, as he brings the “peculiar children” to life, as well as the monsters that pursue them…and Jacob.
\n**kmm<\/p>\n

Book info<\/b>: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children \/ by Ransom Riggs. Quirk Books, 2011. [author’s blog<\/a>] [publisher site<\/a>] [book trailer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

My Book Talk<\/b>: Jacob stopped believing in Grandpa\u2019s monster stories years ago, but what else could kill someone so thoroughly? Fatally attacked, Grandpa gasps that Jacob \u201cmust go to the island\u201d where he will be safe, as he sees the blackened creature of his nightmares disappear into the Florida woods.<\/p>\n

Now 16 year old Jacob has the nightmares, the monster alternating with the old photos of \u201cpeculiar children\u201d who were his grandpa\u2019s friends at the Welsh orphanage which rescued him from the Holocaust \u2013 an invisible boy, the floating girl\u2026real or faked? Clues found at Grandpa\u2019s house convince him that he must find that island and the orphanage, or go insane!<\/p>\n

Thankfully, his psychiatrist agrees, so Jacob and his dad head for Wales, and the mystery grows deeper.
\nIf the orphanage was bombed-out in 1940, how did Grandpa get there later?
\nWhy can Jacob hear voices in the old building when no one else can?
\nWho is following them on the tiny island?<\/p>\n

As the past and present tangle and unravel, Jacob finds the old photos to be new truths as the monsters pursue children for their peculiar talents. A chilling debut novel for very mature readers which ponders how the balance point between good and evil loops through human history\u2026 (One of 5,000 books recommended on www.abookandahug.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Until it’s grown, you don’t known if that weedy stuff is crabgrass or horrible, clawing grassburrs. Likewise, Jacob didn’t realize that the monsters that Grandpa warned him about were real until it was too late, as he looks up from the dying man to see the horrifying creature…and the monster sees Jacob. Author Ransom Riggs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,19,30,41],"tags":[90,22,7,4,20,5,37,16,32,18,40,43,71,49,12,15,9,21,35,33,3,6,8,28,59],"class_list":["post-295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasy","category-fiction","category-legends","category-paranormal","tag-abandonment","tag-behavior","tag-beliefs","tag-belonging","tag-conflict","tag-coping","tag-death","tag-determination","tag-england","tag-family","tag-fathers","tag-growing-up","tag-kidnapping","tag-memories","tag-refugees","tag-relationships","tag-school","tag-self-image","tag-surprises","tag-survival","tag-teens","tag-travel","tag-us-author","tag-villains","tag-war"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2990,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions\/2990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}