Jacob's grandfather has a very creative mind. His grandpa starts off telling Jacob at a very young age ghost stories. As Jacob gets older he can't really tell fact from fiction in his grandfathers tales of his childhood any longer. Did monsters with large tentacles really chase his grandpa out of Poland? Did he really live on an island of children with mystical powers? 
 One day an older Jacob receives a call from his dementia stricken grandfather freaking out about the monsters being back and trying to get him. Jacob fearing his grandfather might hurt himself rushes over only to find that those ghost stories might be true. 
 Thus he sets off on a tale of finding the truth of what really happened both past and present. 
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 The peculiar children are an awesome concept! They live in a time loop of a world that they're forever trapped in. If they were to leave the loop for an extended period of time they'd age drastically and immediately die practically. The time loop was a winning and losing situation for those that lived within it. Winning because they were safe from the monsters that Jacob WASN'T imagining, but losing because it was like an eternal fountain of youth that if you left you'd die. 
 The whole first half of this book we were getting caught up with a world Jacob didn't even know existed. It was kind of confusing at first as often first books can be when the author has to introduce us to such a foreign concept. Once we realize that Jacob himself is peculiar and that his own psychiatrist knew he wasn't crazy it really sets things off in motion. 
 I can't wait to read the second book and see what loops they get to explore next and how far back in time they'll have to go to discover the Wights hiding place. 
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 The photos to create imagery also were really creative and I throughly enjoyed.