A Thousand Words

38. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

I read about this book on a YA blog and loved the story of how it came to be.  The author finds a box of weird old pictures and writes a story about them.  I thought it sounded good but knew it was a book that needed to be seen which kind of goes against a main rule in writing: show don't tell.  I know that sounds odd but over and over the author would explain what the character saw in the photo and then give the reader the photo to see.  I just felt like that was tedious even though he was technically following the rule.  I can't imagine that people who bought this book for their Kindle are very happy either. 

Anyway, I have to say that I liked this more than I thought it would.  I was expecting more of a scary story and this is more of a fantasy.  I think the author did a great job off cutting out all the extra stuff and keeping to task and I thought the pictures were used pretty well, although it did seem like maybe he wanted to include every picture he had instead of just those he needed, but I do have to say that they were creepy!  I mean what is this:

God!!! That creeeeeeps me out.  Seriously, heeby geeby...

The ending was rushed and set up for a sequel which is a trend that drives me crazy!  I just don't need more trilogies made for movies and I have to wonder where the story will come from without the gimmick of using the pictures.