My February Purchases

 1) All the Light We Cannot See
2) The Angel's Game
3) We Were Liars
4) The Magic Faraway Tree Collection
5) Paper Towns
6) The Catcher in the Rye

Book of the Month

The Silver Crown

When Ellen receives a mysterious crown as a birthday present it sets in motion a whole series of tragic and puzzling events. Evil is all around and gradually Ellen realises that only the owner of the silver crown can oppose and defeat it. An exciting and gripping story of extremes of good and evil.

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.

Ideal Book Nook

February Book Releases

Fiction+Magical Realism

Fiction+Adventure+Humour

Historical Fiction+Family

Mystery Thriller+Crime

Middle Graders+Realistic Fiction

Fantasy+Sci-fi+Mystery Thriller

Dystopian Fiction

Cozy Mystery+Chik Lit

British Literature+Mystery

Library Cake for Book Lovers

by C.S.Lewis (Quote of the Month)

My January Purshases

                                       

1) Trespass
2) The Glass Room
3) Drawing for Fantasy Artists
4) Matilda
5) Shiverton Hall (The Creeper)
6) Inside Out & Back Again
7) The Forgotten garden
8) Eleanor & Park
9) Long Way Home
10) The Wishing Chair Collection
11) The Chimney Corner Collection
12) A Journey Into the World of the Ottomans
13) Gone Girl