Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

Most thought it was okay but everyone agreed that it had a lot of potential and fell short of our expectations.  Here are some highlights:

• We loved the photos!  The photos were actually more interesting than the book.  Some of us would have preferred only pictures and others enjoyed fantasizing about what was going on in the pictures versus what the author forced his story into.  Those who read it on our e-books didn’t think the pictures were nearly as impressive as if we had the actual book.
• What was wrong with Jacob?  He was a spoiled teenager.
• We liked the twist that the psychologist ended up being the “bad guy”.  Was the “bad guy” too many roles in Jacobs real life?  Too much?  Makes you stop and think about all of the people you cross paths with…that feeling of “something is familiar about that person”…hummm…
• We were split on whether his power was lame.  He was the only one that could save the day but on an everyday basis, not that cool.  Not to mention that this power wouldn’t have been around prior to the bad peculiars…that part of the story line felt forced.  Our favorite peculiars were the one that could bring things back to life, the one that could float, the one that could get things to grow quickly and the invisible guy.