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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

By: Ransom Riggs
Narrated by: Jesse Bernstein
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 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 makes for a thrilling listening 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, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children will delight adults, teens, and anyone who relishes an adventure in the shadows.


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I'm enjoying the story, but the narration is dreadful. I think the reader must have been to the Dick van Dyke school of accents. What's meant to be Welsh comes out as cockerney via Ireland via Devon! It was funny at first, but now I'm nearly finished, it's really grating.

Like the story, but....

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The actor was great with his normal voice, but unbelievably bad when it comes to a British accent. It was worse than Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins. His Welsh accent was an American doing a bad cockney trying to sound Scottish. Oh dear so so bad. So very very very awful. It kind of ruined the story. It was painful to listen to.

Good story comically bad voices

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Where does Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

I can see why this book was picked up as a movie. It was a good story and entertaining.

Did Jesse Bernstein do a good job differentiating each of the characters? How?

Jesse's performance was great in his own accent but the voices for the children and every other character were poorly observed. This was set in Britain and the actor, unfortunately, blanketed every non-American character with a fractured cockney accent. I was only able to stick it out to hear the end of the plot.

Great book but awful accents!

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Loved this book/ story. Only criticism is the talk of the Welsh accent that I hoped was coming, and it turned out to be a very odd mix of American/Irish/English. I found it really irritating and distracted me from the wonderful story.

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The narrator’s wooden attempts at local Scottish or British accents nearly made re return the title.

Terrible local Scottish accents

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