Hey guys! So I need to know right now which of you listened to this on audiobook
I need to know what is this word it's so crazy!
Time looping time travelling bird - What!
actually maybe Google will tell me how to pronounce it
Ohh, imm, imm-brin ... imm-brin.... immbrin.
Miss Peregrine's home for Peculiar Children! When I started reading this book I pretty much knew nothing about it
I thought that it was going to be a children's book
Because the word "children" is in the title
But once I started reading it I realized pretty quickly this is not an elementary age book
It's definitely for young adult
How to explain this... so RL Stein the famed author of the Goosebumps horror series for children
He had gone on record saying that he on purpose never includes things that could happen to children
in real life... things like the concern that their parents will get a divorce, concern that your parent doesn't love you
a family member dying
All of those things happen in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
You don't really want your like eight or nine year old reading about things like the concern that
...your mom doesn't love you. So this is definitely Young Adult fictions
Also there are some curse words in it. Oh!
Something else I wanted to say about the genre
Which is, I saw a reviewer say this book is magic realism
It is definitely not. One of the signifying features of magic realism is
Something supernatural, something magic happens in a plot, and
The characters accept it and move on (like it was normal)
The opposite thing happens in this book. Jacob sees a monster
And everyone around him does not believe him. They literally send him to a psychiatrist
because they think he's crazy
Jacob eventually convinces himself that he is crazy and that it didn't happen.
This book is full fantasy.
There are 2 types of conflict that can happen in a book. One is internal and one if external.
External is when there are people or forces outside of you that you have to fight against.
And internal is when you're struggling to stay motivated or struggling
to make some kind of internal decision
This book has both! Which I really enjoyed
The main external conflict is Jacob vs. the wights or the hal-hollow- hollowgast? I think I said that right? Hollows.
The creepy tentacle tongue things.
These things are out there. They're gonna get him. He has to figure out
what they are. He's got to figure out how to fight them.
Also the internal conflict, so...
Jacob has this path set for him that's gonna be super ordinary and pretty boring
Where he things he's gonna get to grow up, go to college, and then he's gonna inherit some
boring position with his parent's commercial drug store company
And that's what he assumes his ordinary life is going to be.
And he needs to make a decision if he just wants to keep that path for his life or if he wants
to figure out more about who his Grandfather Portman was and what he did with his life
And figure out if he wants to continue that legacy whatever it might have been.
Life is pretty ordinary.
As things start to get more fantastical
The setting moves to Cairnholm Island off the coast of Wales
Which I looked up and I am very said to say is a fictitious island that we can never go to.
The bog!! So the bog is like this weird in between space
Between the boring little village in Carinholm Island
And the time loop, so there's this creepy in between place
No is the time where I will say - if you're here to just find out if I recommend the book, I do
provided that you like young adult fantasy
Sooo bye bye! Bye bye if you have not read the book
I will be talking about spoilers
Bye bye! Oookay!
I saw a review that said that this book was not creepy
And I was like [stares]
Probably the creepiest thing I can think of happened in this book
Martin the museum curator was murdered, either by a wight or by a hollowgast I'm not sure.
But anyways his corpse was like totally mangled.
And thrown in the ocean and it got really bloated
It washed back up to shore and the town's people froze it in a fishmonger's warehouse.
The put in on ice until a proper coroner could come get it.
The peculiars were trying to figure out what happened to this dead man.
So one of the Peculiars, Enoch O'Connor,
whose peculiarity is to be able to re-animate dead things
They re-animate this dead man by sticking mice hearts into his chest cavity
And he comes back to life briefly. They describe his dead corpse
Okay? They describe his dead, bloated, mangled corpse.
And then Jacob talks to him and asks "Who murdered you?"
And then this re-animated murdered man points to a man off in the distance (who was approaching the peculiars.)
If THAT'S not creepy, I would be really curious what is creepy to you??
A thing that I thought was a little weird was
Emma's relationship with Jacob. I think it's personally a little weird
That you would be dating and kissing your grandfather's former love interest.
I just think that's really weird. And I get that she looks like she's 16.
And she technically is but she's also technically 88 years old.
I'm really excited for the movie which is coming out in... a week? It comes out next weekend.
I am a little worried. This is a really popular book.
And I loved it. I thought that the plot really moved. It was a great page turner.
But probably the biggest complaint that I saw on Goodreads was that
this is a lot like X-Men First Class - And it's true that it kind of is.
This movie I think runs the risk of being a little too derivative of that
If they don't emphasize the internal struggle that Jacob is going through with whether or not to
follow his grandfather's legacy. So I was really bummed that in the trailer
there was no appearance from Grandpa Portman
I thought that he deserved a spot because he's such an important motivator for Jacob.
I'm definitely excited for book two (Hollow City) which I have not read yet. I know I'm really behind.
And I am going to do a book versus movie comparison
of the movie that is coming out next weekend
so please stay tuned for that
Thanks so much for watching and I'll see you in my next video