Book 3: Book Review :)

(Angle #3) After reading both of these amazing books I have realized that both Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher and Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs have a similar idea in the book which is solving a mystery about someone else. Even though the genres of each book is completely different, In Thirteen Reasons Why the genre of the book is realistic fiction and in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children the genres of that book is fantasy, fiction, and children’s literature. Also in each book the plot of each book is different too.

In Thirteen reasons Why the main character Hannah had just committed suicide. In the book this boy named Clay is trying to figure out why she had made this decision by listening to a bunch of tapes that were given to him at the being of the book. Throughout the book Clay goes to different locations of town to get more information out of each tape. Discovering more and more of the story of Hannah Baker. In Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children the main character Jacob is trying to figure out if his grandfather’s past was true from the stories that he told or if they were just made up of lies. When his grandfather gets murdered Jacob decides that he wants to go to the island of where his grandfather grew up. There he finds many photographs of the children his grandfather talked about. Same as the first book discovering what happened to someone, but in this book he is finding out about the untold story of his grandfather and the many crazy stories of his past.

In both books they have many similarities like having someone dying in the book; also another connection between the two books is that someone is trying to figure out more about someone else in the book. “Go to the island, he said.” “I thought that I could protect you, he said. I should’ve told you a long time ago…”(pg. 36). “I spend months following my grandfather’s death cycling through a purgatory of beige waiting rooms and anonymous offices, and analyzed and interviewed, talked about just out of the earshot, nodding when spoken to, repeating myself.”(pg. 39). In the first quote Jacob is saying his last words to his grandfather before he dies and the second quote is Jacob going through what happened to his grandfather. “I almost forgot. If you’re on my list, you should’ve received a map. I let the wrapping fall back into the trash. I’m on the list. A few weeks ago, just before Hannah took the pills, someone slipped an envelope through the vent of my locker.”(pg 11). This quote is when Clay is starting to go to the locations that are stated in the tapes, when he starts investigating Hannah’s death.

For each book even though they have many similarities they have themes that are somewhat similar. For both books a theme that they both have is that the choices you make can affect others but mostly affect you. The reason I say this is because in Thirteen reasons because of all the bad choices that the people at her school make about her completely ruin her. When she killed herself it mostly affected her but it still affected others like Clay who wanted to know her more but was afraid to talk to her because of all the bad things that were said about her. In Miss Peregrine’s Jacob has to decide if he wants to stay with the children to help they find a new time period or if he decides to go back home to his ordinary life and could be in danger from the hallow ghosts. A theme that is in Thirteen reasons but isn’t in Miss Peregrine’s is that you should be careful what you say about someone else otherwise it could hurt the other person. This is a theme because from the result of all the bad rumors, bullying, lying, and stealing things that were important to Hannah, the people at her school made Hannah feel cornered and made her feel like her couldn’t do anything. A theme that is in Miss Peregrine’s that isn’t in Thirteen reasons is that fear doesn’t stop you from having the courage to go against it.  This is a theme only in this book because in the book Jacob faces his fear of fighting a hallow ghost. Which in the book all the other children wanted to hide from them for a really long time until Jacob came along. But in Thirteen reasons Hannah faces her fears of standing of up herself instead she commits suicide but she leaves tapes explaining her side of the story and what happened.

Lastly the rating for Miss Peregrine's would be 5 stars and 13 reasons would be 4 and a half stars. I would choose becasue for 13 reasons you can expect how the plot is going to happen but the book was still really good. For Miss Peregrine's the book would be 5 stars is becasue the book isn't as predicable and the plot has many plot twists in the book and the style of writing is more different that any other book that I have read.