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As an unfortunate tragedy befalls Jacob, he thinks he's lost his mind- his head full of darkness. He thinks the only way to solve his problems would be to go back to where it all started- to where his grandfather started. He finds himself in a bleak island and stumbles into the broken old house where his grandfather used to live, the place that he will find the truth about himself and everything else. Often it seems the author was thinking "oh that's a cool picture, let's throw it in," when in fact there's no connection that it's in there, besides the narrator finding the picture.
All in all, not a great book but not a bad one either. I've heard the second and third ones are better and since I already plunked down the cash for them, I'm going to go ahead and read them. I loved Jacob right off the bat - loved his voice ( the narrator was ADORABLE & WHOLESOME). I can't imagine anybody not being drawn into the story immediately. I was almost in tears before the first hour of listening.
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Critics have generally praised the book for creative use of vintage photographs in the sepia style and surrealist form, as well as good characterization and settings. It would probably be a 15 if I included the angst I felt every time the love sauntered on the page, but this isn’t about me. This is about Jake and peculiar children who deal with angst in different and better ways than I. There are a lot of sadness and bitter-sweet ‘what ifs? ’ in this book that made my heart hurt, especially concerning Abe, the sweetest grandpa ever. Jacob’s grandfather always used to tell him stories about his childhood.
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This is kinda like uh...a hipster Harry Potter. There are tons of cool vintage photographs that lend the air of a turn of the century freak show. It was very creepy, exciting and really intriguing, but it all went downhill from there. Once the mystery around the house was explained - which was fairly early and without any nuance - it became a very boring and almost childish story, which I didn't expect at all. This is just one of those books whose hype I don't really "get." I read this years ago when it was newly released, and was thoroughly unimpressed.
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Besides his flowery language and horrifying taste in women, I liked Jacob. It was fun to read this and for a long time I haven't felt that feeling while reading a book. One where Peculiar children live in hiding, in a permanent time loop. Where their carer Miss Peregrine does everything within her power to protect the children from the monsters that hunt them. Second most of the characters are just plain boring.
For example, a picture of two children holding hands would start this story of friendship, which would then grow with every picture, introducing grander stories and dragons, unicorns, whatever the pictures gave me. What a selfish, whiny, obnoxious, pretentious, arrogant little @#$%wad! From the first chapter, where he is trying to get his sorry @ss fired, I hated him . Please read description and review all photos for full description of condition. Delivery time is estimated using our proprietary method which is based on the buyer's proximity to the item location, the shipping service selected, the seller's shipping history, and other factors.
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I could have used more explanation about the wights and hollows too. Have you ever played that game where one person starts a story and stops mid-sentence and the next person in the circle has to pick up the story? That's how reading this book felt, only instead of jumping from disjointed person to person, it jumps from disjointed photograph to photograph. I also really enjoyed the pictures that were strategically placed throughout the book.
Getting Tim Burton as director is an amazing coup. Whatever changes have been made, I expect the film to be enchanting and wonderfully entertaining. He offers a mystery, and the clues that Jacob and the reader are challenged to interpret in order to figure out what is going on. The powers of the peculiar children are certainly fun, but not spectacular, overall.
It would take a slow reader 31.0 hours, an average reader 15.5 hours, and a fast reader 7.75 hours to read it. Hollow City was released in 2014 by Ransom Riggs. The total word count is between 107,000 and 128,400 . It would take a slow reader 28.53 hours, an average reader 14.27 hours, and a fast reader 7.13 hours to read it. Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children was released in 2011 by Ransom Riggs.
Everything leads to a far-away island with an abandoned orphanage. Here it is for the boy to uncover secrets and threats he couldn't have possibly imagined. As his grandfather dies, Jacob catches sight of a horrific monster just like the ones described in Abraham's stories. Soon, he starts experiencing trauma and being plagued with nightmares relating to those monsters. Also, even though this is billed as a "children's book," there was a grittiness to it that sets it apart from most books of its kind.
Well, maybe it's because his abrasive, self-righteous, privileged personality chases them away. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To see what your friends thought of this book,please sign up.
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