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Review: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

written by M. J. Magee

The name Ransom Riggs conjures to mind a grizzled man, undoubtedly in a fedora, who has dedicated his life to hunting down Nazis or, at a really artsy push, possibly Atlantis.

It doesn’t seem to lend itself to the cover of a book for Young Adults, adorned with a vintage photograph of a little girl and flourishes of flowery Victorian illustration.

But then that’s the nice thing about Riggs and his novel Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children: it isn’t quite what you’re expecting going in.

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Review: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children was last modified: February 11th, 2017 by M. J. Magee

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I love stories. Books, films, comics, particularly indepth board games, inappropriate anecdotes overheard at the chemist - I love them all.
And I love writing stories.
Which isn't the same as being good at it.
But analysing what makes a story seems as good a way to learn as any.
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