Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Ich habe dieses Buch in einer Woche durch bekommen, es hat mich gepackt. Der Schreibstill ist wirklich angenehm zu lesen und für Menschen mit englisch Kenntnissen doch auch einfach zu verstehen. Ich finde es sehr schon und spannend das es sich nicht um die Beziehung der Hauptcharaktere geht sondern wirklich um die Kinder im Gesamten. Ich empfehle dieses Buch jeden, muss euch aber warnen ihr wird die Folgenden Bücher auf jeden fall auch lesen wollen. I have read the book in only a week since it was that good to me. The writing style is really good and easy to understand even for people who doesn’t have english as their first language. I was quite happy to see that the book didn’t focused on the relationship between the both main characters. I recommend it to everyone, it has something for everyone, but i must warn you, you will want to read the following books too.

What if all the "fairytales" that you were told as a kid turn out to have never been fairytales in the first place? What if your dear grandfather sets you on a journey into another world - another time? What if you get the choice to leave your ordinary life behind and instead get thrown into a life filled with adventures, dangers, and love? What I love most about this brilliant book series is the way these extraordinary friendships are built over time. It makes you want to be a part of their group of peculiar children and to go on adventures with them. The cherry on top are those beautiful photographs that are worked into the story! Some seem so eery that it's hard to believe that they're actual pictures. Fortunately, it's the first of sixth volumes in Miss Peregrine's universe. Read it and fall in love!

The most captivating trilogy I've read in a long time! I am an absolute Harry Potter Fan BUT Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children is just as good! I devoured it. One of the best books I've ever read! So toll, dass ich dieses Buch fast meinem ganzen Freundeskreis geschenkt habe!

A story about regret, loss and the consequences to choices we make. Jacob describes himself as “normal”. He lives a protected and agonizingly boring life. He has no friends and is really close with his grandfather, who told him many gruesome stories about his childhood. About children with peculiar abilities being chased by monsters. Jacob does not believe that these stories are real, but rather fairytales. Until his grandfather dies of rather strange reasons. From then on, everything changes for Jacob. He wants to find out the truth, despite the disbelief of his parents and his psychiatrist. The book is a science-fiction/horror/fantasy-all-in-one. The story is fascinating, fast-paced and has a very peculiar sense of humor. I loved the photographs displayed in the book. They made the story much more special. All of them are real photographs collected by all kinds of people. Everytime Jacob describes one of the children, the matching picture helps in visualizing them. They also give the book an eerie feeling. Riggs has collected all of the pictures on yard sales, flea markets and from other collectors and invented the story to match the pictures and not the other way round. I think that this is very fascinating, because it shows just how much imagination Riggs has. I liked that the peculiar children not only had the “ordinary-fantasy-abilities”, but also very special skills, that I have not yet heard of before, like the boy, who had bees living inside of him, or the girl, who has a mouth on the back of her head. The way, time is displayed in this book is really intriguing. The loop is nothing new, there are many stories where someone traveled through a “gate” and arrived in a past or the future. However, Riggs added a new aspect with the headmistress, who is responsible for the loop and has to take care of it. It completely makes sense to me, that someone has to travel through the loop every so often to keep it open. There are two aspects, which did not make sense to me. For one, Jacob does not sound like a teenager. I know he lived a very sheltered life and spent most of his life with his grandfather, but there was never a moment, when I really could identify myself with him. Additionally, I am disturbed with the relationship between Emma and her history with Jacob’s grandfather. You don’t start a relationship with the grandson of your Ex!!! Nevertheless, I loved, loved, loved the book!

Englich mal ein Jugendbuch, das aus der Reihe tanzt! In dieser ungewöhnlichen Geschichte macht sich Jacob auf den Weg zu den "besonderen Kindern", der Such nach sich selbst und der Geschichte seines verstorbenen Grossvaters. Riggs ist ein tolles Buch gelungen, insbesondere die Fotografien haben mich fasziniert. Der Autor hat Jahre der Recherche investiert und Kisten voll alter Fotografien durchwühlt, bis er jene zusammen hatte, um die herum er seine Geschichte webte.