Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

So, the part of me that is almost my sister did a happy dance to this book. She's a big fan of anything horror (usually I just do zombie anything) so I thought I would give it a try. It's the summer, I feel like going crazy. So I did.  I made sure the dog slept with me and reading the book was awesome. This book is creepy. Super duper creepy. What makes it even scarier is that there are photos. Real photos of real people doing weird stuff. There are monsters and adventure and some really peculiar stuff that happens. Every time I turned the page I had a second of fear, not sure if the next page was going to have a picture that was going to scare the hell out of me. That's right, the book literally had me scared of it.

I found this book when I was perusing Barnes and Nobel, as I am known to do, and I was drawn to the cover. It's a black and white photo of a little girl levitating. What's creepy about it is her face. No smile, just looking you dead in the eye.

MP follows a boy who goes on a mission to find out his grandfather's secrets. His whole life he'd been told ... peculiar stories from his grandfather's past. As he got older he stopped believing them. Until one night, when things got weird. After that night he realized he needed to know what was going on so he traveled halfway across the world with his ornithologist father to Great Britain to do some exploring on his own.

The nice thing about this, probably why I liked it, was that there was a somewhat happy cliffhanger ending. Not so much happy as hopeful. No worries, I'm not giving anything away. I loved, loved, loved the character development, especially near the end. This boy grows and by the end of the book he's a completely different person. Have I mentioned that this book is creepy? I'm shoving this book in my sisters hand the second she gets off that plane for the summer. If I liked it, there's no question that she'll like it.

Because it's a YA novel the writing style was easy to read, something I'm craving now that college is out for the summer. I'm getting older and the characters aren't but I still enjoy young adult novels just as much as I did when I was a teen. I'm happy to have found this book and been given a good present for getting through the school year! I highly recommend this book. Read it, if only for the pictures.