Jacob loved listening to the stories his grandfather told him. Exciting adventures about fantastic places, monsters, and children with unusual abilities, such as levitation or invisibility. Although his grandfather insisted that everything was true, Jacob, growing up, attributed these stories to his grandfather's vivid imagination. But a few years later, he finds him murdered, and next to him a grotesque humanoid with eel-like tentacles in his mouth instead of a tongue - the monster from his grandfather's stories. Solving the puzzle leads him to an orphanage on the Welsh coast. There, children with unusual abilities live in a time loop, where every day the same date from 1940 is replayed, when the world had already learned about the horrors of World War II... The novel is interrupted by one-sided, black-and-white vintage photographs with (Gothic) motifs of strange children. These complement the text and, together with the mysterious and supernatural story, create a unique reading experience. The atmosphere when reading is excellent and it is not surprising that the book became a huge bestseller (among other things, it stayed on the New York Times bestseller list for more than 70 weeks). The original has already been published in two sequels and a graphic novel adaptation, and in cinemas we can see a film version entitled Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, directed by none other than the master of the weird, Tim Burton. (taken from Bukla.si)

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