Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, Book 1)

Jacob has grown up listening to his grandfather spin fantastic tales of adventure and exploration. Now that Jacob is older, he realizes that that is just what they are – stories. Following a family tragedy, Jacob comes across information that makes him wonder if everything that he had been told really was make-believe.

To find out more about his grandfather’s life, Jacob convinces his father to travel to a remote island off the coast of Wales to visit the orphanage where his grandfather lived. Once there, he discovers the ruins of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children – a place more fantastic that he could have dreamed.

The fantasy that has been crafted by Ransom Riggs will keep the reader enthralled and reading to the end. The action and storytelling tend to ebb and flow a bit since this is the first book of a trilogy and it setting everything up. The characters are not fully developed in the first book but the following books help fill in the gaps.

I listened to the unabridged audiobook and thought the narrator, Jesse Bernstein, did a great job...until I listened to books 2 and 3 narrated by Kirby Heyborne (wow!). Obviously, I liked the first book enough to continue with the rest of the trilogy.

Rating: 4 stars