Savvy's Reviews
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Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
When this book first appeared in bookstores, no one quite knew what to make of it. I begged my mother for weeks to take me to get my own copy until, finally, she caved. This book has sat happily dusty on my bookshelf for years. Every once in a while I will pick it up and look through it at the fascinating found photography collection that Ransom Riggs shares with us.
But I never read it. I don’t know why, because as a child and even now as a young adult, all things horror and creepy are exactly what I claim as my aesthetic. As a photographer, the digitally enhanced photographs in this book are forever fascinating and captivating.
I was finally able to pull this book off my shelves and force myself to really fall in love with the story. Which I did. This story takes place on the fantasy island of Cairnholm, off the coast of the very real country of Wales, which just makes me feel all the more connected to this book. My family comes from Wales and I’ve spent many a school project doing ancestry research on my Bowen heritage and the beautiful land of Wales.
Had I read this book when it was first published, I might have gotten frustrated with the amount of time it took Jacob to actually find the home and its inhabitants. But knowing what I know now (that there are now six novels in the series) I can fully appreciate the build up of this magnificent world. I’m fully committed and completely married to the world that Ransom Riggs has created and I am itching to get started on “Hollow City”.
I found myself really falling in love with the characters and their peculiar little family. There is so much story left to tell and so many more photographs to find. I absolutely adore this series and am more than thrilled to announce that you can now get all six plus novels from the Randolph County Public Library, including the newest addition to the series “The Desolation of Devil’s Acre”.
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