Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs is a strange story about a young boy dealing with his grandfather's death. His grandfather, while he was alive, was an extreme embellisher of stories, touting claims of monsters and magical children. Jacob, our hero, stopped believing his stories at a young age, that is, until his grandfather appeared to be killed by those very same monsters. Convinced he is crazy, Jacob travels into his grandfather's past and discovers that the world is not as stable as it appears to be.
My very favorite part in the book is this:
"Only birds can manipulate time, Therefore, all time manipulators must be able to take the form of a bird...Most, however, slip back and forth only occasionally, by accident. We who can manipulate time fields consciously- and not only for ourselves, but for others- are known as ymbrynes. We create temporal loops in which peculiar folk can live indefinitely."
Also, it stayed in the "real world" for a little over 100 boring pages, which made the fantasy exciting and fresh-feeling.
4.5/5
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