“I leaned in to look as he drew out four wrinkled and yellowing snapshots.  The first was a picture of what looked like a suit of clothes with no person in them. […] He slipped me another photo. […] I held the snapshot closer. The girl’s feet weren’t touching the ground. But she wasn’t jumping—she seemed to be floating in the air.  My eyes were glued to her haunting doll-like face. ‘Is it real?’ ‘Of course it is,’ he said gruffly, taking the picture and replacing it with another, this one of a scrawny boy lifting a boulder. […] But the strangest photo was the last one. It was the back of somebody’s head, with a face painted on it. I stared at the last photo as Grandpa Portman explained, ‘He had two mouths, see?’”

Jacob Portman’s grandfather grew up during the Second World War and had been shipped off the small island of the coast of Wales to protect him from the Nazi’s who were invading his polish homeland.  Grandfather Portman had always filled Jacob’s head with stories of his times on the island with monsters and the bizarre children who stayed at the orphanage with him.  After years of hearing these stories and seeing the supposed photographic truth, Jacob finally told his grandfather that the stories were just fairy tales.  But, Jacob begins to see the truth in the tales the day he finds his grandfather murdered by what he swears was monster lurking in the woods behind his grandfather’s house.  Of course no one believes Jacob and his parents and police agree that it was a pack of wild dogs and promptly send Jacob to a counselor to sort through his issues and grief.

In order to deal with the death of his grandfather the counselor and Jacob decide it would be a great idea for Jacob to travel to the island his grandfather spent his youth on.  Of course the counselor doesn’t know Jacob has his own motivation for going, which is a mysterious letter from the island Jacob found among his grandfather’s possessions.   Once Jacob reaches the island and finds the remains of the house his grandpa had lived in with the other children, things start to get more and more peculiar.  Miss. Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children is a great mix of mystery and unexpected supernatural elements and the photos are guaranteed to give you goosebumps. (Renee, The Loft)

Comments

Add New Search

Write comment
Name:
Email:	do not notifynotify
Title:
UBBCode:	-color-aquablackbluefuchsiagraygreenlimemaroonnavyolivepurpleredsilvertealwhiteyellow -size-tinysmallmediumlargehuge
	Please input the anti-spam code that you can read in the image.

Powered by !JoomlaComment 3.26

3.26 Copyright (C) 2008 Compojoom.com / Copyright (C) 2007 Alain Georgette / Copyright (C) 2006 Frantisek Hliva. All rights reserved."