Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

First read: July 5th-July 6th, 2015
Second read: September 27th, 2016

5/5 stars “I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen.”

In preparation of a movie I have too high expectation for, I reread a novel I love so much that I found a way to include it into a homework assignment about “What makes me a writer?” And in celebration of Loop Day, I am finally getting around to posting my review. Fortunately, I did reread it, because, unfortunately, I had forgotten why I loved it so much to begin with.

It's a story of a boy trapped between two worlds: one where he is accepted and one where he is not. A boy who loves his grandfather so much that he travels across the world for him. A boy whose family thinks he's going crazy, when in reality he's just peculiar.

It's not the vintage pictures that tell this story, nor the elegant words that decorate every page, but instead the unique characters that bring the story to life. Each child has a distinctive personality that shines through the dialogue and descriptions. I feel as if I know everyone as if I was one of them. In fact, Jacob may be one of my favorite fictional characters of all time. You know, if I ever sat down and tried to make a definitive list. Though he's an extraordinary kid, he's still just ordinary. He has overprotective parents, he had a job, a family he loves but secretly hates. He's so for the reader to relate to, that it's hard to not love him.

If you are one of the only people in this world who haven't read Miss Peregrine's, then stop what you are doing, open your mind, and just read. Don't go in expecting something creepy, but instead something peculiar.