Ransom Riggs - Library of Souls (Miss Peregrine's #3)

As the story opens, sixteen-year-old Jacob discovers a powerful new ability, and soon he’s diving through history to rescue his peculiar companions from a heavily guarded fortress. Accompanying Jacob on his journey are Emma Bloom, a girl with fire at her fingertips, and Addison MacHenry, a dog with a nose for sniffing out lost children.

They’ll travel from modern-day London to the labyrinthine alleys of Devil’s Acre, the most wretched slum in all of Victorian England. It’s a place where the fate of peculiar children everywhere will be decided once and for all.

Spoiler-Free Review

Ransom Riggs - Hollow City (Miss Peregrine's #2)

- Minor spoilers, just so you be warned -

The second Novel to the Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children series, Hollow City, is about the peculiar children and their headmistress, Miss Peregrine, searching for another ymbryne that can help Miss Peregrine turn human again.

Since I wasn't such a big fan of the first book, I didn't expect to like the second one much, either. But although I've had my prejudices, I tried to be as objective as I could.

Ransom Riggs - Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's #1)

I've had a few issues with this book.

Although I really liked the story and premise of it, I've had problems with Jacob. In the first chapter it he describes himself (I wouldn't consider this a spoiler as it appears at the beginning of the book and doesn't reveal anything about the story, anyway)
 
Jacob describes himself as a spoiled brat. His mother is intensely rich and his uncles own the company that he's got a job at and tries everything to get fired from it, behaving incredibly unrespectful toward his boss, which made him, in my eyes, extremely unlikeable.

Because of that, I intended to put the book down, but since my bookclub wanted to read this, I kept on going. The further I got into the story, the more interesting it became. The book uses antique pictures, as you may know, that were made to fit into the sory.
The photos were quite powerful, but I felt the author tried too hard at some points to fit them into the story (why would sleeping granddad be appreciated by readers? Well.) and the writing lacked descriptions, I think because of those photos. 

- SPOILERS AHEAD -