Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children I, II, III

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I do not know if I have mentioned it, but besides the books I read for myself, my husband and I also began a thing where we read something together. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children was kind of a precursor for it seeing as I read halfway through the series on my own before my husband got interested in them so I started reading the remainder out loud.

For being a children’s series, I kind of feel like it has a lot of maturity about it mostly for the atmosphere of constant death and impending doom. I would say it is the new generation of A Series of Unfortunate Events except the movie was terrible with an irrelevant ending to the series. Connecting the doom and maturity, the time loop [a moment in time created by the headmistresses to protect the kids] is during peak WWII era London, which is hardly ever a setting for a children’s series. I give props Riggs to for exposing this time and place to a demographic that would never dream of this being a reality, especially first-world. It was not a made up setting like The Hunger Games of a similar tone, and I appreciate that.

I enjoyed the character development throughout the series. Book One is awkward and you meet everyone so that by Book Two, the ball is rolling and the task at hand is always mentioned so then at Book Three, we wrap it up with a sense of maturity by change of dialogue, especially coming from Jacob since he is after all the narrator.

The word on the interwebs is that Ransom Riggs is working on a new trilogy for Peregrine with the first book coming out last year. It would be nice to keep reading the series; I would hope it gets better with age, and not because Jacob continues to do so.

I will be honest, I probably would not read these again. It was entertaining as a one-time read. I felt like I was slave to trend for a moment, like when I read Twilight as the hype was just beginning to settle [worst literary mistake ever]. If you, or your kids should you have any have not read Miss Peragume’s Home of the Legumes, you’ll be able to start here.

7/10