YA Review: “Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children” by Ransom Riggs

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This wasn’t what I expected at all. Everyone had hyped up this book SO much. Don’t you hate when people do that? They make it seem like a book is equivalent to the Second Coming and you’re so excited that you already put the book on a pedestal before you even read it. In the end, you are so disappointed because it didn’t reach that standard you had placed for it.

That was “Miss Peregrine’s” for me. I wanted MIND EXPLOSION. Instead, i got a little piece of paper with ka-plow written on it.

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YA Review: “The Darkest Minds” By Alexandra Bracken

 *Mind Explosion*

Talk about a book that leaves you speechless in the end. HOLY SHIT!

When I first started watching Booktube, it seemed like EVERYONE was reading or had read this book. It got good reviews after good reviews after great reviews, I had no choice but to grab it when I saw it in the book section in Target. “Top 13 of 2013” book videos had “The Darkest Minds” as their number #1 constantly!

Do you see where I’m getting at?

And to be honest, I didn’t want to like this book. I really didn’t! Everyone was reading it….it was such a bandwagon read.

But OH…MY…GOD! Yesssssss……

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