Book Review: Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of very curious photos. As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sends sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children.
During WWII, Abraham Portman is sent away from his family for his own safety. After a while, he leaves the island and enlists in the war.
Many years later, Jacob Portman is fascinated by his grandfathers stories of the home, and the 'Peculiar' children that live within. His grandfather tells him of a girl who could hold fire in her bare hands, and a boy who was invisible, unless he wore clothes, as well as many others. He also tells him that he went to the war to kill the 'Monsters'.
 After several years, Jacob expresses his disbelief in Abe's tales, and his grandfather never tells them to him again.
Fast forward a few years. Jacob is now sixteen, and he receives a frantic phone-call from his grandfather, who tells him that the monsters are coming to get him, and Jacob must tell him where he hid his guns so that he can kill them. Jacob, feeling frustrated, goes to Abe's home, only for his grandfather to die in his arms.
After many therapy sessions, Jacob decides that he needs to visit the home where his grandfather grew up. He and his father, Frank, arrive at the Island. They stay in the only available place, a pub called The Priest Hole, also known as The Piss Hole. Jacob goes exploring, and finds the house, which has become a desolate place. After asking a few of the older inhabitants, he is told that the house was bombed, and that all the inhabitants are dead. This doesn't add up for Jacob, as his grandfather had received a letter from the headmistress only a few years earlier. Jacob then goes on a search to find the truth.

I'm not going to give anything away, but this book was pretty scary at times. It had a really good (and REALLY complicated) romance that didn't dominate the story, and the characters were so realistic. The pictures tied into the story very well, and made the book so vivid.
I would recommend this book to anyone who likes creepy stories, love triangles, or the supernatural. It has something for everyone.