Yay! So the trailer for Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children is out, and if you haven’t seen it yet, I highly recommend you to do it. If not, well, there’s always the book!
These are three books that have this dark tone that we’re sometimes in the mood for.
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children Sampler by Ransom Riggs Published by Quirk Books ISBN: 9781594747960
on June 24th 2014
Genres: Young Adult, Horror & Ghost Stories, Fantasy & Magic
Pages: 352
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Synopsis
A mysterious island.
An abandoned orphanage.
A strange collection of very curious photographs.
It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience. As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets 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. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that the children were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They may have been quarantined on a deserted island for good reason. And somehow—impossible though it seems—they may still be alive.
A spine-tingling fantasy illustrated with haunting vintage photography, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children will delight adults, teens, and anyone who relishes an adventure in the shadows.
I’m going to say right off the bat that the weird pic of the levitating girl isn’t the weirdest one. At first, the narrative was pretty slow, but then, fortunately, it picked up. Because the peculiar kids are the best part, getting to know them and their… um… peculiarities.
A Madness so Discreet
A Madness So Discreet by Mindy McGinnis Published by HarperCollins on October 6th 2015
Genres: Young Adult, Thrillers & Suspense, Mysteries & Detective Stories, Historical
Pages: 384
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Synopsis
Edgar Award nominee for Best Young Adult Mystery
Mindy McGinnis, the acclaimed author of Not a Drop to Drink and In a Handful of Dust, combines murder, madness, and mystery in a beautifully twisted gothic historical thriller perfect for fans of novels such as Asylum and The Diviners as well as television's True Detective and American Horror Story.
Grace Mae is already familiar with madness when family secrets and the bulge in her belly send her to an insane asylum—but it is in the darkness that she finds a new lease on life. When a visiting doctor interested in criminal psychology recognizes Grace's brilliant mind beneath her rage, he recruits her as his assistant. Continuing to operate under the cloak of madness at crime scenes allows her to gather clues from bystanders who believe her less than human. Now comfortable in an ethical asylum, Grace finds friends—and hope. But gruesome nights bring Grace and the doctor into the circle of a killer who will bring her shaky sanity and the demons in her past dangerously close to the surface.
This one is so awesome! I actually have to apologize for not having written a full review for it when I read it, but I hope this will be enough to convince you! Grace is a character with so many problems, but her mind isn’t one of them, or is it? I think madness is a very relative thing, and this book is a thrilling exploration of those who were considered mad and thrown into awful asylums in the 19th century. It wasn’t pretty at all, but it’s all so bloody exciting, because even among the ignorant, there are really awesome people willing to be really awesome and spread that awesomeness in spite of the idiots 🙂
Tithe
Or Tributo (The Spanish version)
Tithe by Holly Black Published by Simon and Schuster on September 27th 2012
Genres: Young Adult
Pages: 352
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Synopsis
Do you believe in faeries? Not the soft, gentle kind, but the sinister, feral kind ~ the ones that wreak havoc on everything in their path...
Sixteen-year-old Kaye is a modern nomad. Fierce and independent, she travels from city to city with her mother's rock band, until an ominous attack forces them back to her childhood home.
To the place where she used to see Faeries.
They're still there. But Kaye's not a child anymore and this time she's dragged into the thick of their dangerous, frightening world. A realm where black horses dwell beneath the sea, desperate to drown you… where the sinister Thistlewitch divines dark futures… and where beautiful faerie knights are driven to perform acts of brutal depravity for the love of their uncaring queens.
Once there, Kaye finds herself an unwilling pawn in an ancient power struggle between two rival faerie kingdoms ~ a struggle that could end in her death…
This one I picked on a whim years ago, and yup, another bizarre little thing. But it has fairies! You know how in some stories, there’s the Seelie and Unseelie courts, and usually one are the evil fairies, and the others are the slightlier less evil ones? Well, here everyone is pretty much evil. Isn’t that amazing? No one pretends to be anything less. And the Unseelie? Imagine the Winter Court from the Iron Fey series, but ten times worse. You thought Mab was creepy and sadistic? You will think she’s a sweet snowflake compared to the Unseelie Queen!
I REALLY liked Miss Peregrine, Because I mostly read dark stuff I didn’t find it especially dark but I did have a nightmarish quality to it that I loved 🙂
A Madness So Discreet sounds right my alley !
I usually don;t read fairies because of the same reason, I like dark and fairies books are not usually dark but Tithe sounds really good so I’m adding ti to GR! Thanks for the suggestions Pam 🙂
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