So I've sat down to write allll of these reviews all in one go!! Otherwise they will not get done! I'm still enjoying a lot of free time to sit down and read as much as I want but the university year is closing in fast!! I've done pretty well as I have managed to get through 11 books so far and I'm half way through 12 and 13 and I have started 14!!
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2 - Ransom Riggs
I can well and truly say that if you have never read the first Miss Peregrine then you are sorely missing out!! If you haven't ill do a quick overview. Jacob lives in modern day American he is a normal boy until his grandfather passes away! His grandfather leaves him with a lot of mysteries to solve and to find! Jacob as a result ends up going to England to a remote island to find a woman that his grandfather used to write to in the hope she would have some ideas about his grandfathers early life. It comes to pass that Jacob finds a secret world of children that never grow up and have peculiar powers - from floating girls, boys with bees inside them and girls who can make fire in their hands. And it turns out that Jacob is peculiar as was his grandfather!! He can see the giant monsters (that are usually invisible) which his grandfather could also see!! This changes Jacobs life. The loop that the children live in is threatened and their keeper Miss Peregrine is turned into a bird permanently. The end of the first book finishes with them leaving to go to London to find someone who can change her back!
Very action packed, I know!! And yes you can tell it is created for 'young adults' but I never listen to classification!!
So in the second book the children all get to London in pretty much one piece but being in 1940's lLondon comes at a price when the children end up being chased by scary invisible monsters, wrights dressed as Nazis and actual Nazis!! They travel London trying to get Miss Peregrine turned back human and they meet many peculiar children, people and animals along the way.
So overall both books are worth reading! They are both only short but they pack a punch. The best bit about the books is that they have pictures alongside the text. These pictures are all real vintage photos that Riggs collects from carboot sales etc ... which he has then put together and then he has put a story together with it!! This is what makes the books even more genius! I don't think as a 'young adult' (which I still class myself as) being any younger I would not have appreciated this book in the same way that I do now! It has so much underlying in the book without the top story that even though it is an easy read it isn't necessarily shallow!!
Give them both a go! In the right order obviously and let me know how you get on!!!
See you soon :)
Leanne x
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