Reviews tagging 'War'

Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

66 reviews

guinness74's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Charming and enjoyable. Just what I needed in my timeline of books. It’s not what you would expect, which made it even more enjoyable. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Body horror, Death, Gore, Xenophobia, Blood, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child death, Mental illness, and Alcohol

chips_xoxo's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Stalking, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

euhfubeuh's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny lighthearted tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

Miss Peregrine’s Home is a creepily fun and historical spin on school of gifted children trope. The characters are all fun, fiery, and quirky, and obviously I’m a bit biased to Emma. The collection of photos that is iconic for the series is a great addition to make the story even more immersive, knowing that Riggs collected most of them from Abandoned buildings and edited them to fit the story makes them all the more chilling.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Genocide, Hate crime, Violence, Death of parent, Murder, and War

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Chronic illness, Xenophobia, and Antisemitism

bri_morgan's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Violence, Blood, and Alcohol

Minor: Antisemitism

readingelli's review against another edition

lighthearted mysterious medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, War, and Injury/Injury detail

drewanslee's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, and War

Moderate: Animal cruelty and Animal death

Minor: Blood

vanessatombolini's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Blood

Minor: War

oceanwriter's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

This series has caught my eye for a while, especially when the movie came out. I’ve been hesitant to pick it up because I’m not typically one for the horror genre. I joined a buddy read which gave me the push I needed to read it. 

 

Jacob grew up listening to his grandfather’s stories of the peculiar children he knew growing up. As he got older, he discredited his tales as fiction. Never could he have imagined one of those stories coming to fruition and taking his grandfather’s life. No one believes his own story now, thinking him traumatized and mentally unwell. 

 

Jacob believes the answer to his nightmares lies in his grandfather’s stories. He convinces his parents to allow him to take a trip to England where his grandfather lived during World War II. There, he ends up finding the portal into the past. 

 

I was surprised by how absorbed I got into the book. Yet, whenever I put it down, I didn’t find myself thinking about it. My interest was mostly in the beginning, however. By the end, I was weirded out by the relationship between Jacob and Emma’s relationship. While I could anticipate the book ending on a cliffhanger given there are other books that follow, I was a little annoyed as I don’t feel invested enough to jump immediately into book two. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, and Blood

Moderate: Gun violence, Antisemitism, and War

Minor: Ableism, Child death, and Mental illness

gentle_garbage_baby's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

It was fine - didn't enthral me or anything. The photographs were a nice addition though.

Also Jacob getting with Emma? Super weird considering she legit dated his grandad.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Death, Mental illness, and Violence

Minor: Gun violence, Blood, and War

rhgrimes's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny hopeful mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Violence, and War