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I usually read several books simultaneously, so it is a rare book that can grab my attention enough for me to focus solely on one book until it is finished. One such book is Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs, which captivated me this weekend. Admittedly I was first intrigued by the wonderfully bizarre photographs found throughout the book, but the story lives up to them. I was reminded firstly of Slaughterhouse Five and also The Lathe of Heaven, then of Nightmare on Elm Street. After which the book morphed into a sort of Rick Riordan universe of children saving the world. Well, sort of children ... peculiar children.
Warning ... the photographs and hand-written letters do NOT display well at all on a Kindle (of any size) ... I switched to reading on a Kindle Fire to fully appreciate the photos (you just have to zoom and study some of the details) (be sure to zoom in on the photo of the creepiest school bus driver you'll ever see outside of a nightmare!) - so I recommend reading this book on a LCD screen device, rather than on an eInk screen.
It's a magical, warped, somber yet hopeful book - a carnival sideshow that has never lost its humanity.
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