Review: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
It has been a few days since I finished this book, and I must say it has not left a strong impression on me. I liked it well enough, but I didn’t love it. It is about a boy, Jacob, who sees his grandfather dying. Before he dies, the grandfather gives him a mysterious message about finding the orphanage where he lived as a child and “warning them”. Jacob had seen pictures of the other children from the orphanage, when he himself was a kid, and his grandfather had told him that all the kids had special powers. As a teenager Jacob stops believing in his grandfather’s stories, but he goes to the island where the orphanage was in order to get some closure on his grandfather’s death anyway. On the island he finds the old, abandoned orphanage, but he soon learns that not all is what it seems on the island, and paranormal adventures ensue. As I said I liked this book. I thought the writing was good and the plot was well paced. When the book first came out everyon...