Book Review: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, by Ransom Riggs

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Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children has a lot in common with one of those writing exercises where you take a picture and write a story about it. In this case, we have a novel based on a number of old photographs involving trick photography. The story spun from the photographs is one of temporal shenanigans, people with mysterious magical abilities and tentacle monsters.

Our Hero is a young man named Jacob who has spent most of his childhood hearing fantastical tales from his grandfather about the orphanage where he grew up.

My over all view of the book is that I liked it, but wasn't very sure of the worldbuilding.