Enter the world of peculiarity, where monsters hunt little girls that can create fire with their hands and boys with bees living in their stomachs. However, the story does not start there. It starts in the life of a seemingly normal boy, with typical teenage problems and tasks. He has a job, a friend, and what appears to be a simple family. But when something terrible happens to his grandfather, he is forced to uncover the history he thought was fiction all his life by travelling to an island off the coast of Wales. Even if it means he has to put himself in the same ‘situation’ as his grandpa.

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children is the only book to have held my attention until the very end in the past few months. It’s concept and plot was so enticing and unique, I just couldn’t put it down. The way that the photographs fit in the world they were placed in was amazing and creative. I found myself immediately craving the second book, Hollow City, and had to go buy it. Another thing I loved were the characters. While there wasn’t much development or relationship building, all the personalities and interesting attributes of each character are both relatable and one of a kind. This book is an absolute masterpiece when it comes to fantasy writing, and I highly recommend it to anyone who likes fiction.

The thing I did not like about this book was that a certain subplot seemed very rushed and forced. It was pushed upon the main characters with minimal, pointless explanation. It was just brought up to give the story a bit of pizazz that it really didn’t need. It was perfectly fine without such a rushed subplot, but the rest of the book’s aspects outnumber said subplot.