Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

My daughter told me about this book and I was very skeptical about it.  I am glad I read the book anyway.  It was so much fun.  I have said it before, I will read anything!  This book proves that again.  This is a story about a man and his grandson.
The grandson grows up loving his grandfather deeply and loving the stories that his grandfather has told him his whole life.  The stories were about monsters and about peculiar children that could do amazing and extraordinary things.
At some point the grandson's father told the boy that the stories were untrue.  It was heart wrenching for the boy to hear that.  He had looked up to his grandfather for so many years.
When the boy is a teenager he checks on his grandfather and finds some strange things going on.  When he tells his father what he sees, the father doesn't believe him and forces the teen to see a therapist.
At some point the teen wants to see where his grandfather grew up to do some research of his own.  It is hard but he and his therapist convince the father that going to the island where his grandfather grew up would be a healing process for the teen.
The teen and his father embark on an adventure and the teen soon finds out that his grandfather knew about things that were seemingly out of this world and possibly very dangerous.  He makes a lot new friends along the way in his adventure and instead of a conclusion to the book the end is a beginning to a new adventure.
The story flowed so well and was so entertaining along the way.  My only complaint is that I don't like books to end at a beginning.  I think it is a rip off by the author to end a book that way.  I think if you want to write a series do it like the Harry Potter and other novels where each book is a complete story of it's own.  This could have been done very easily in this case but the author chose to begin the next story to tease the reader into buying his next book.  Shame. Shame.  That being said I did enjoy the story of the Jacob and the Peculiar children and I will most likely read the next book.