3.5 stars 
 Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children is a book that is interesting and unique. There's adventure and danger and time travel and supernatural powers, which all make it quite exciting. It is both well-written and well-researched, and the photos add an entirely new dynamic. However, all of these elements combined with such a large cast of unique characters and a heavy mythology make it quite dense and occasionally difficult to get through. It's only about 350 pages, but it felt like so much more because I had to read a lot more slowly than usual. Every word was packed with meaning, which isn't a bad thing, but I felt like a lot of the mythology was going over my head. Also, as cool as the photos are, a part of me feels they're a little disingenuous. These are real photographs of real people, and they have been repurposed to create this story. On the one hand, Ransom's interpretation is so clever, but on the other, I know I probably wouldn't really like it if someone took a picture of me and wrote some crazy story about it. All in all, very intriguing story. I will definitely pick up Hollow City and even the graphic novel adaptation, but I doubt this is one I'll actually read again.