Review:
Another one of my personal picks for the 50 Book Challenge. I had heard a lot about this book so I couldn't post-pone the reading anymore.
Jacob is a teenager troubled by his grandfather stories and a profound conflict between believing them or not. The pictures that used to illustrate those stories when he was just a kid lead him on an adventure to a strange Welsh island. Once there, the limits between reality and fantasy became blurry, and he finds himself immersed in a supernatural story with a time travel twist.
The book is supposed to be for children/early teens, but it contains such a great plot and well developed characters that it’s a becomes a good read for almost any age.
I really found way more that I was expecting, a very nice surprise.
Different, well rounded, with the addition of old photos peppered all through the story, it’s one of the most interesting proposals I've read this year so far.
Things I liked: The originality of the plot, the description of the island, all the vintage world/freak show introduced to us in a way we start looking at it with curiosity and we end up feeling the characters as if they were our friends.
Things I didn't like: not many, honestly. Perhaps Miss Peregrine’s character, I expected more from her, but there’s a sequel on the making, so nothing is final yet.
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children is a complex story, very dynamic, and highly entertaining. The unsettling pictures just give it the right amount of spice without being completely creepy.
Don’t judge it for the cover, this book has much more to offer than a plain horror tale, in fact there’s not horror at all, just the perfect mix of weird events and peculiar characters.
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