Miss Peregrine's home for peculiar childeren by Ransom Riggs

A mysterious island. 

An abandoned orphanage. 

And a strange collection of very curious photographs. 

It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children , an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience. As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that the children who once lived here - one of whom was his own grandfather - were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They may have been quarantined on a desolate island for good reason. And somehow - impossible though it seems - they may still be alive.

 A spine-tingling fantasy illustrated with haunting vintage photography, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children will delight adults, teens, and anyone who relishes an adventure in the shadows.

Looking at its cover you might think what is this book about, yes the title gives away its an home for peculiar childeren. But that is about it.

I had seen it an mutiply in book stores but I sort off couldn't buy it, afraid of it being an horror book, I honestly dislike horror a lot. But curiosity overtook me and with my birthday money I ordered it.

Yes I did not read it at night afraid of hearing and seeing things that were not there. (Yes I tend to do that after I read or seen something that is quite scary)

The book itself suprised me, it is an really good, alluring story that pulls you in once you have started. The vintage photography that is in the book, adds just an bit more to the story in the way that you can actually see what they are talking about. The charachters itself are also unique in their own way and somehow I would have loved to meet them myself if this was real, they could proivde you with an unique vieuw on the world itself.

Ofcourse there are a few small dislikes from my part, but they just are so, oh so tiny. 

First off I bought this book without googeling so I was really mindset on the idea that this might have been an one piece book, no series. But after some googeling I found out it was just an another serie. (I don't mind, trust me but I told myself I couldn't buy anymore series)

The second is that, The book is gonna be turned into an movie. (wich book isnt these days right??)

About it becoming an movie i would have been really excited it it was some unknown director with an unique vieuw on it, but Tim burton is directing it. Yes it might become an very unique movie with his vieuw on things, but maybe it will become and to big of an hollywood production, on that part I have an serious dislike.

Want to find out more, check out the blog of the author Ransom Riggs here.

Book Review: Torn by Amanda Hocking

Acknowledging that she was different from everyone else wasn't difficult for Wendy Everly - she'd always felt like an outsider. But a new world and new family is a hard for any girl to accept easily. Leaving behind the mysterious country of her birth, she is determined to fit back into normal life. But the world she's left behind won't let her go that easily ... 

Kidnapped and imprisoned by her true family's enemies, Wendy soon learns that the lines between good and evil aren't as defined as she thought. And those things she'd taken for granted may have been lies all along. With the help of the dangerously attractive Loki, she escapes back to the safety of Forening -- only to be confronted by a new threat. 

It's time to make a choice -- can she put aside her personal feelings for the sake of her country? Torn between duty and love she must make a choice that could destroy her one chance at true happiness. 

Yes I finished them, all of them in almost one day. Yes you may think I am crazy but these book are just so good. Torn picks up from where it left off at switched. You can go right back into the story, it explains subtile what had happend in switched (in case you didn't read them back to back like it did)

It is a good way of explaining those things so subtle and light cause diving back into a detailed summary of the entire previous book gives you a set back and makes you think like, I already read that.

Well in this book we meet a few new charachters of wich I won't spoil like promissed but there is one charachter named loki on wich I had to laugh. Not because he is so hilarious in the books but because of his name. I couldn't get the image of loki from the avengers out of my head, thats stupid right. Thank god I managed to put that away and create a new charachter in my head that does fit the loki in this book.

So again a page turner for people to enjoy, I can repeat it over and over again but I can only say a must read and stay tuned for a review about the last instalment in the trilogy, Ascend.

Book Review: Switched by Amanda Hocking

Wendy Everly knew she was different the day her mother tried to kill her and accused her of having been switched at birth. Although certain she's not the monster her mother claims she is - she does feel that she doesn't quite fit in...

She's bored and frustrated by her small town life - and then there's the secret that she can't tell anyone. Her mysterious ability - she can influence people's decisions, without knowing how, or why ...

When the intense and darkly handsome newcomer Finn suddenly turns up at her bedroom window one night - her world is turned upside down. He holds the key to her past, the answers to her strange powers and is the doorway to a place she never imagined could exist. Forening, the home of the Trylle. 

Finally everything makes sense. Among the Trylle, Wendy is not just different, but special. But what marks her out as chosen for greatness in this world also places her in grave danger. With everything around her changing, Finn is the only person she can trust. But dark forces are conspiring - not only to separate them, but to see the downfall everything that Wendy cares about. 

The fate of Forening rests in Wendy's hands, and the decisions she and Finn make could change all their lives forever ...

Buying the entire Trylle trilogy hasn't been a bad decision at all. I just bought them not knowing what to expect in them. I had read so much over the years, most things filled with magic, fallen angels or vampires. Ofcourse I am not hooked on only those genres but in a way they always appeal to me and always will. 

Starting in Switched you jump right back to eleven years in the past. To get to know Wendy her past and its sort of cruesome, I mean what mother will kill her kid right. Only Psycho ones but yeah.

Then you go back to highschool, a troubled teen and everything. You get to know wendy very well so soon. She is a very intresting charachter and you want to know why she does certain things or why she behaves like that. When we meet finn, he sounds jsut like your average stalker teen but you even get to know him better as the book moves allong.

Besides Finn and Wendy you meet a whole line of new charachters, Matt, Rhys, Willa, Aurora, Tove and so many more but it is not hard to remember them all one by one. 

It is to not spoil when I talk about this book cause it is different. Amanda Hocking created a whole new world people could drown themselfs in and it is appealing. It is like fairy tale meets magic in a secret town hidden close by Minnesota. A whole new legend to believe in. It did blew away my mind and I lost myself in the books, not being able to put them down.

Now that I am also finished with Torn, the second book in this trilogy I will most certainly jump start into Ascend the thirth and final book. Can't wait what is in store for me.

At the end of the books there is a feature of new material but I haven't read those yet since I first want to finish the trilogly by itself.

If my opinion counts for you then I have to say a must read!