Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar children

The protagonist of our story is 16 year old Jacob Portman whose grandfather showed him peculiar photographs when he was a child. When his grandfather is killed by a monster, everyone tries to tell Jacob that he had a psychiatric episode and didn't really see what he thought he saw. To try and "cure" him Jacob's father and he leave for the tiny island where his grandfather lived as a child. While there, Jacob learns that all his grandfather's tales were true and they are all in great danger.

The "peculiar" children kind of reminded me of the idea behind the X Men with Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children being like Charles Xavier's School For Gifted Youngsters. Where the similarities end however is that the children in this novel are more concerned about surviving and not being killed by the non-mutants and monsters that always pursue them instead of saving the world. This is not a bad thing. The story is a great fantasy tale and I already have the X Men.

The method of writing the tale was also interesting. Ransom Riggs found a lot of old photographs that I shall term Pre Photoshop Photoshop. Photos that had been somehow rigged to give out extraordinary effects like double exposure that sort of things. For example notice the levitating girl here on the front page. Taking these old photos, Riggs decided to write a story where these photos could be real and not just tricks of the photographer. It is an interesting concept and I look forward to reading more of the series.