Book a Week 2012 #11

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

I wanted to love this book. But I didn't. Maybe I just went into it with too big of an expectation. I found the book trailer so wonderfully enchanting, but the book didn't live up to it. The photographs being part of the story is a great idea. But why have the photographs if you never get around to fully introducing the characters behind the photographs? I wanted to know more about the other characters than I did the main character, and it just never panned out.  Bummer. I wanted more magic, more horror, more twists and turns. It's not all bad, just didn't meet my expectations and all the hype. It's a decent book, and I'll read the next just to find out what happens.