Review: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

The front cover of this book caught my attention several times but I couldn't guess what this book was about. After it was recommended to me by few friends I decided to give it a go. On Wikipedia and Goodreads the genre of this book is categorized as Horror, Young Adult, and Dark Fantasy.
I started reading it and was purely engrossed in it...I loved the creepy and dark elements entwined around the vintage pictures. Jacob's grandfather's stories and pictures of the island and the peculiar children were very strange and fantastic. At that stage it reminded me of Neil Gaiman's The Ocean at the End of the Lane.
But then Jacob found the island and from that moment on the story lost its charm. It became from excellent to bad to worse. All of a sudden I felt I was at Enid Blyton's Kirrin Island reading a childish adventure story.
Although, this book has some creepy stuff in the start but I wouldn't call it a horror story at all except the part when Jacob was kissing his grandfather's girlfriend. Very disturbing.

I liked the unique idea of weaving the story around the vintage pictures but it could've been better. I can sum up the whole book in one sentence.

A book with a perfect beginning that met its poorly executed disastrous end.


There is no way I will be reading the sequel.