Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children By Ransom Riggs

For my mystery book talk, I read Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs.

This book takes place in Cairnholm which is an island off of the UK. The main character, Jacob, finds a loop that lets him go back in time to September 3, 1940. He uses the loop to go back and forth from the present to the past and back to the present. Jacob is 16 years old and very curious. He is the investigator of the mystery. The mystery of the story is that Jacob needs to find the children that his grandfather grew up with and figure out his grandfather 's secret. Jacob’s grandfather always told him stories about children who could mysterious things such as levitate and turn invisible. Jacob never really believed these stories until his grandfather passed away. Jacob’s grandfather gives him a huge clue right before he dies. Using this clue, Jacob finds

First, the author delays an event the reader knows is coming. For example, the book states “I began to lift, but he moaned and went rigid, so I stopped. I couldn’t bear to hurt him. I couldn’t leave him either, and there was nothing to do but wait” (Riggs 32). This was very compelling because Jacob’s grandfather is about to die, and even though it is very obvious, the writer still delays it which draws the reader in. Second, the writer drops hints about future events. For instance, the story explains “I slipped a note under his door and went to grab Emma’s apple, but it wasn’t on my nightstand where I’d left it. . . I realized that the leathery thing was the apple. . . When I tried to pick it up it crumbled in my hand like a clump of soil” (Riggs 204). This example of suspense works very well for the story because it shows that a living thing that came through the loop from the past died overnight, and this indicates that something would happen to the children if they passed through the time loop. In conclusion, the author adds a lot suspense in this