It took me a few minutes to decide to even buy this book. I couldn't decide if it sounded like a good read, or just plain weird. I finally decided to pick it up and give it a try after reading some good reviews on it.
The main character of this book is Jacob. He grew up listening to his grandfather talk about an orphanage he was sent to as a child, his family was Jewish and his parents sent him away to try to save him. He tells Jacob these incredible stories about the other children in the orphanage and even has weird photographs of them all. A girl levitating. An invisible boy. As he gets older he believes that his grandpa is just making this all up, and that none of it is true. When he is 16 his grandpa dies in a terrible way, and Jacob see's something that he doesn't know if its real. His grandpas last words send him to the island where the orphanage is. Jacob had found a letter from the head of the orphanage, Miss Peregrine, that is only 15 years old. He is wondering if anyone from the orphanage is still alive. When him and his dad get to the island, Jacob goes looking for the orphanage and finds that it is completely destroyed, and that it was destroyed by a bomb during WWII in Septmeber of 1940, his grandpa was the only one who made it out alive. But Jacob is wondering how Miss Peregrine had sent a letter to his grandpa just 15 years before.
I don't want to give too much of the book away, I really enjoyed the first 3/4 of the book, but the last 1/4 wasn't as good. I didn't like quite how much fantasy it turned into. There is a sequel to it called Hollow City, and I haven't decided yet if I will read it. I am sure eventually I will, but its not one of those books that you are running out to buy as soon as you finish the first one. The cool thing about this book is that it is full of the strangest pictures, and they are all real.
There was quite a bit of swearing in this book, but never the "F" word, so I have to rate it a mild PG-13 because of that. I give it rating of 3 out of 5.
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