{"id":399,"date":"2012-04-02T08:21:12","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T16:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/?p=399"},"modified":"2012-04-02T08:21:12","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T16:21:12","slug":"miss-peregrines-home-for-peculiar-children-review-on-goodreads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/02\/miss-peregrines-home-for-peculiar-children-review-on-goodreads\/","title":{"rendered":"Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, review on Goodreads"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Miss<\/a>Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children<\/a> by Ransom Riggs<\/a><\/p>\n

My rating: 3 of 5 stars<\/a>
\nLast week I read and wrote about a children\u2019s book, and wondered why we, adults, like to read them. This week I read Miss Peregrine\u2019s Home for Peculiar Children<\/em>, and I\u2019m finding that line blurry once again. I don\u2019t think Ransom Rigg\u2019s novel is necessarily for adults\u2014that\u2019s the default, right? I saw the book on the new arrivals shelf at Barne\u2019s & Noble, was intrigued by the cover, intrigued by the use of old photographs within the text, and once I read the sample on my e-reader, decided to keep going. Nowhere was there anything that made me think that this was a book for kids.<\/p>\n

Until I was about halfway through it. The main character is a teenager, and the other characters are either adults seen from his perspective (unlikeable) or a bunch of little kids possessed of fascinating \u201cpeculiarities.\u201d So it\u2019s about kids, is quasi-fantastical, deals with time travel and a mysterious island and other tropes that seem to indicate: meant for younger readers.<\/p>\n

Is it important to make the distinction? Maybe. If I\u2019m going to speak to how well the book was written, or how well the writer\u2019s ideas were executed, maybe I should say something like \u201cteenagers will identify with Jacob\u2019s struggles to balance his experience with adult incredulity, while adult readers will enjoy the return to innocence in this coming-of-age tale with a twist.\u201d But I\u2019m not writing back-of-the-dust-jacket blurbs here.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll say this instead: it\u2019s a quick read, interesting enough, sets itself up for sequels, and gets three stars because Riggs tells his story right without taking any real risks. That\u2019s a poor review, actually, but the best I can do, for now. You see, Peculiar Children<\/em> was not the book I expected, and I\u2019m only just now realizing I don\u2019t even know what my expectations were.<\/p>\n

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Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs My rating: 3 of 5 stars Last week I read and wrote about a children\u2019s book, and wondered why we, adults, like to read them. This week I read Miss Peregrine\u2019s Home for Peculiar Children, and I\u2019m finding that line blurry once again. I don\u2019t think … <\/p>\n

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