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Reviewer:
Forrest Schultz schultz_forrest@yahoo.com
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August 22, 2016
A Loopy, Circus-Like, Steampunk-Flavored New
Fantasy
A Review of
Ransom Riggs
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar
Children (Quirk, 2011)
$17.99 352 pp
ISBN: 978-1-59474-476-1
Reviewer: Forrest Schultz
On a
remote island (at age 16) Jacob succeeds in solving a mystery concerning his
grandfather only to encounter a much deeper mystery – a war between two secret
groups endowed with “peculiar” abilities which are mostly of a bizarre circus-like
nature rather than the usual kind of supernatural phenomena found in most fantasy
literature. And Miss Peregrine is a
Victorian lady, thus giving a “steampunk” kind of aroma to the portions of the
story in which she appears. And there is
a very unusual romance in which Jacob falls in love with Emma (one of the “peculiars”)
who is still the same age (due to the loopy kind of time travel they do) as she
was when she was in love with Jacob’s grandfather when he was a youth!!
This is the first book of a trilogy by a
new novelist, whose writing has so intrigued me that I am now preparing to read
and review the second and third books also (which were published in 2014 &
2015). Information on the author is
available at www.ransomriggs.com and www.quirkbooks.com.
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