Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children Boxed Set: 3 Novels by Ransom Riggs
The New York Times #1 best-selling series.
Includes 3 paperback novels by Ransom Riggs and a collectible postcard.
MISS PEREGRINE'S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN: A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in this groundbreaking novel, which mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling new kind of reading experience. As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob Portman journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.
HOLLOW CITY: September 3, 1940. Ten peculiar children flee an army of deadly monsters. And only one person can help them—but she's trapped in the body of a bird. The extraordinary adventure continues as Jacob Portman and his newfound friends journey to London, the peculiar capital of the world. There, they hope to find a cure for their beloved headmistress, Miss Peregrine. But in this war-torn city, hideous surprises lurk around every corner.
LIBRARY OF SOULS: A boy, a girl, and a talking dog. They're all that stands between the sinister wights and the future of peculiar children everywhere. Jacob Portman ventures through history one last time to rescue the peculiar children from a heavily guarded fortress. He's joined by girlfriend and firestarter Emma Bloom, canine companion Addison MacHenry, and some very unexpected allies.
Includes 3 paperback novels by Ransom Riggs and a collectible postcard.
MISS PEREGRINE'S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN: A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in this groundbreaking novel, which mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling new kind of reading experience. As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob Portman journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.
HOLLOW CITY: September 3, 1940. Ten peculiar children flee an army of deadly monsters. And only one person can help them—but she's trapped in the body of a bird. The extraordinary adventure continues as Jacob Portman and his newfound friends journey to London, the peculiar capital of the world. There, they hope to find a cure for their beloved headmistress, Miss Peregrine. But in this war-torn city, hideous surprises lurk around every corner.
LIBRARY OF SOULS: A boy, a girl, and a talking dog. They're all that stands between the sinister wights and the future of peculiar children everywhere. Jacob Portman ventures through history one last time to rescue the peculiar children from a heavily guarded fortress. He's joined by girlfriend and firestarter Emma Bloom, canine companion Addison MacHenry, and some very unexpected allies.
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I had been curious about this book ever since the movie came out and I enjoyed it. There are some character and plot changes, but I think the movie is actually a decent adaptation and I would recommend one if you like the other.
What a book.
There are books that grab you right from the beginning and refuse to loose their grip. This was one of them. I am very grateful I am on spring break and had the luxury of sitting down and reading it all in one sitting. If I hadn't, this would have been one of those books you cart around with you, trying to read every spare moment you got. And that wouldn't have been right, either, because it would have ruined the atmosphere of the book.
Which is fabulous.
This is an interesting, haunting book. The premise is interesting: Jacob is a young man who lives a fairly boring life, the only excitement of which comes from the supernatural tales his grandfather tells him of his youth. When his grandfather is found, violently dead, with incomprehensible last words on his lips, and Jacob thinks he sees a creature from his nightmares receding into the Florida wilderness, Jacob's world is thrown on its head. The last words of his grandfather and various clues lead him to an island off the coast of Wales, almost as mysterious and outside the modern world of forward-moving time as what else Jacob finds.
SPOILERS TIME.
He finds a time loop in an old cairn. He wanders through to September 3, 1940, where Miss Peregrine has managed to keep that one day repeating forever and her wards safe from the outside world. They are "peculiars," people with odd powers and talents. They are mostly stuck as children in their bizarre time bubble, playing games and learning their lessons and eating their dinners for eighty-odd years before Jacob comes and trouble begins to descend. Doesn't it always?
But this book is delightful and surprising. The whole atmosphere of the book is mystical and magical and mysterious, and nothing feels silly or contrived. It's so easy for some of these things to lose their sense of awe or seriousness, like the invisible boy. He could so easily have become a foil or a easily brushed aside comedic bit, but I took him very seriously. There was an air of solemnity, a hush to the book that is hard to describe but fit the plot perfectly. I loved it. It was the feeling you get when you walk into a building that is furnished from another time period, anything that feels temporally misplaced. There is a sense of quiet wonder but also a vaguely unsettling feeling, but it's a feeling that delights.
Lastly, the pictures were so perfect. They are all real pictures, which adds to their power, and the author has managed to arrange them in such a way so that they fit perfectly in with the story. They, too, are wondrous and eerie and profound and solemn and when you look at them you stare and stare and slowly break from your trance just so you can keep reading, not because you don't want to keep staring.
I can't wait to read the next one.
There are books that grab you right from the beginning and refuse to loose their grip. This was one of them. I am very grateful I am on spring break and had the luxury of sitting down and reading it all in one sitting. If I hadn't, this would have been one of those books you cart around with you, trying to read every spare moment you got. And that wouldn't have been right, either, because it would have ruined the atmosphere of the book.
Which is fabulous.
This is an interesting, haunting book. The premise is interesting: Jacob is a young man who lives a fairly boring life, the only excitement of which comes from the supernatural tales his grandfather tells him of his youth. When his grandfather is found, violently dead, with incomprehensible last words on his lips, and Jacob thinks he sees a creature from his nightmares receding into the Florida wilderness, Jacob's world is thrown on its head. The last words of his grandfather and various clues lead him to an island off the coast of Wales, almost as mysterious and outside the modern world of forward-moving time as what else Jacob finds.
SPOILERS TIME.
He finds a time loop in an old cairn. He wanders through to September 3, 1940, where Miss Peregrine has managed to keep that one day repeating forever and her wards safe from the outside world. They are "peculiars," people with odd powers and talents. They are mostly stuck as children in their bizarre time bubble, playing games and learning their lessons and eating their dinners for eighty-odd years before Jacob comes and trouble begins to descend. Doesn't it always?
But this book is delightful and surprising. The whole atmosphere of the book is mystical and magical and mysterious, and nothing feels silly or contrived. It's so easy for some of these things to lose their sense of awe or seriousness, like the invisible boy. He could so easily have become a foil or a easily brushed aside comedic bit, but I took him very seriously. There was an air of solemnity, a hush to the book that is hard to describe but fit the plot perfectly. I loved it. It was the feeling you get when you walk into a building that is furnished from another time period, anything that feels temporally misplaced. There is a sense of quiet wonder but also a vaguely unsettling feeling, but it's a feeling that delights.
Lastly, the pictures were so perfect. They are all real pictures, which adds to their power, and the author has managed to arrange them in such a way so that they fit perfectly in with the story. They, too, are wondrous and eerie and profound and solemn and when you look at them you stare and stare and slowly break from your trance just so you can keep reading, not because you don't want to keep staring.
I can't wait to read the next one.
Loved this story. Using the photos as inspiration for the characters was just perfect. I loved just staring at all the old photographs and studying them. I can't wait for the sequel.
It's so easy to fall in love with the children. So uniquely perfect in their own ways.
Love it!
It's so easy to fall in love with the children. So uniquely perfect in their own ways.
Love it!
Such a fun book to read. I read it after seeing the movie (which I liked) but wish I would have read the book first. I am looking forward to the next two books.
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