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A review by graciegrace1178
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
4.0
4.4 stars.
This was?? Way better than I thought it was gonna be? And way DIFFERENT than I expected. Many thanks to the friend who recommended it!
PT: fantasy, young male protags, OTPs, Reading around the world/location-based (Florida and Wales!)
OT: supernatural, photograph inspired works, Emerson appreciation
WIL
1) tone. Not too often is see a Riordan-like tone in series. Thank god. Thank g o d.
2) OTPPPP. MCMWKFHWID
3) Hero's Journey to a T. (Partitioning the hero's journey main points as foci of later books! //Riordan) (AKA structure choices)
4) creative inspiration (pictures). Ransom’s idea to use pictures as inspiration is SO unique! Love that! What a creative idea! I always forget that people can draw inspiration from *anything,* and this was a nice reminder.
5) Recommended by friend. Thanks, Maximus! You know my taste in books too well.
6) decent pacing. Not too fast. Not too slow. Events were weighted appropriately (in contrast with my other recent read: Genius by Leopoldo Gout).
7) Face-claims. Extension of 4. Even beyond the pictures just being plain creative, they were also decently helpful in establishing character appearances and Vibes TM. I always struggle with envisioning character appearances. Was a nice addition for my imagination.
8) Emma. I’m partial to characters named Emma.
WIDL
1) Drag? maybe it's all the caffeine in my blood, but I had trouble getting into this/focusing on parts of this book.
2) less grounded in environment than I hoped. I kinda hoped that the book might cover more of the Welsh environment. That’s just me tho. I know why Riggs didn’t go into much detail on it, and it’s fair. Just personal preference.
3) pictures. 4/7 extension. The pictures are helpful BUT they’re also a bit detracting. Because they’re there, I didn’t have quite the same chance to envision the world for myself. There’s a bit of a restriction on meme states there.
Neutral Ground
1) Vibes. This book reminded me of a TON of others. I've broken down the similarities by category/parallels to other books:
The adventures: Percy Jackson.
The themes: Robert Cormier.
The monsters: Supernatural (wendigo) and Stranger Things.
Other book parallels that I have yet to articulate into categories: The Magicians, Ready Player One
This was?? Way better than I thought it was gonna be? And way DIFFERENT than I expected. Many thanks to the friend who recommended it!
PT: fantasy, young male protags, OTPs, Reading around the world/location-based (Florida and Wales!)
OT: supernatural, photograph inspired works, Emerson appreciation
WIL
1) tone. Not too often is see a Riordan-like tone in series. Thank god. Thank g o d.
2) OTPPPP. MCMWKFHWID
3) Hero's Journey to a T. (Partitioning the hero's journey main points as foci of later books! //Riordan) (AKA structure choices)
4) creative inspiration (pictures). Ransom’s idea to use pictures as inspiration is SO unique! Love that! What a creative idea! I always forget that people can draw inspiration from *anything,* and this was a nice reminder.
5) Recommended by friend. Thanks, Maximus! You know my taste in books too well.
6) decent pacing. Not too fast. Not too slow. Events were weighted appropriately (in contrast with my other recent read: Genius by Leopoldo Gout).
7) Face-claims. Extension of 4. Even beyond the pictures just being plain creative, they were also decently helpful in establishing character appearances and Vibes TM. I always struggle with envisioning character appearances. Was a nice addition for my imagination.
8) Emma. I’m partial to characters named Emma.
WIDL
1) Drag? maybe it's all the caffeine in my blood, but I had trouble getting into this/focusing on parts of this book.
2) less grounded in environment than I hoped. I kinda hoped that the book might cover more of the Welsh environment. That’s just me tho. I know why Riggs didn’t go into much detail on it, and it’s fair. Just personal preference.
3) pictures. 4/7 extension. The pictures are helpful BUT they’re also a bit detracting. Because they’re there, I didn’t have quite the same chance to envision the world for myself. There’s a bit of a restriction on meme states there.
Neutral Ground
1) Vibes. This book reminded me of a TON of others. I've broken down the similarities by category/parallels to other books:
The adventures: Percy Jackson.
The themes: Robert Cormier.
The monsters: Supernatural (wendigo) and Stranger Things.
Other book parallels that I have yet to articulate into categories: The Magicians, Ready Player One