Hello everyone, from New York Comic Con! This weekend, your friendly neighborhood Book Smugglers are at the Javits Center, enjoying the panels, exhibitors, and assorted sundries. While we’re out, we are thrilled to run a giveaway of the paperback edition of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs, plus Hollow City posters, courtesy of Quirk books!
ABOUT THE BOOKS:
Hollow City
(Book 2 – synopsis from EW.com)
September 3, 1940. Ten peculiar children flee an army of deadly monsters. And only one person can help them—but she’s trapped in the body of a bird.
The extraordinary journey that began in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children continues as Jacob Portman and his newfound friends journey to London, the peculiar capital of the world. There, they hope to find a cure for their beloved headmistress, Miss Peregrine. But in this war-torn city, hideous surprises lurk around every corner. And before Jacob can deliver the peculiar children to safety, he must make an important decision about his love for Emma Bloom.
Hollow City draws readers into a richly imagined world of telepathy and time loops, of sideshows and shapeshifters—a world populated with adult “peculiars,” murderous wights, and an entire menagerie of uncanny animals. Like its predecessor, this second novel in the Peculiar Children series blends thrilling fantasy with never-before-published vintage photography to create a one-of-akind reading experience.
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
(Book 1)
A mysterious island.
An abandoned orphanage.
A strange collection of vintage photography.
It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, a spine-tingling YA fantasy illustrated with haunting black-and-white photography.
The hardcover edition spent more than 52 consecutive weeks on the New York Times Best-Seller List. This beautifully designed paperback edition features an exclusive interview with author Ransom Riggs and a sneak preview of the upcoming Miss Peregrine novel.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
RANSOM RIGGS is the #1 New York Times best-selling author of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. He is also the author of Talking Pictures (Harper Collins, 2012) and The Sherlock Holmes Handbook (Quirk, 2008). He is a graduate of the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts and lives in Los Angeles.
Follow Ransom on his blog, twitter (@ransomriggs), and facebook.
GIVEAWAY DETAILS:
We are giving away three copies of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (book 1) as well as three copies of these gorgeously creepy posters for book 2, Hollow City. The contest is open to US addresses only and will run until Sunday October 21 at 12:01am. To enter, use the form below!
43 Comments
Josephine Cheung
October 12, 2013 at 12:45 amPoison by Chris Wooding.
karina c
October 12, 2013 at 12:52 amWhy, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, of course!
Malvika Jaswal
October 12, 2013 at 1:33 amOkay, this is not fair!!! what about the ones who aren’t in the US???
Ammy Belle
October 12, 2013 at 1:59 amHm I think Miss Peregrine is up there in terms of my favourite YA spooky read – esp. the lead up to Jacob going to England. Marvelous!
Tanya Patrice
October 12, 2013 at 8:28 amI liked Miss Peregrine too. I also liked The Diviners by Bray – pretty awesome spooky read.
Kirsten!
October 12, 2013 at 8:48 ammmm, gonna go with The Hallowed Ones for my favorite. Perfect blend of Amish and apocalyptic~
Tyron Monk
October 12, 2013 at 9:28 amMy favorite spooky YA read is “The Monstrumologist” by Rick Yancey.
Lexi
October 12, 2013 at 1:08 pmI do not really read spooky but these look interesting so I might try outside my usual habits.
Amalia
October 12, 2013 at 1:17 pmDefinitely it has to be the first book in this series. I was blown away by the amazing world building.
Lan
October 12, 2013 at 1:58 pmMary Downing Hahn’s Wait Till Helen Comes, Halloween read since I was a kid.
Darith
October 12, 2013 at 2:24 pmThe Diviners and Peregrine 😀
Kelley
October 12, 2013 at 5:01 pmAnother Little Piece–just read it and really liked it
Hannah
October 12, 2013 at 5:51 pmAcceleration by Graham McNamee!
Dana
October 12, 2013 at 7:02 pmMy favorite spooky YA read is A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness. ^_^
Anita Yancey
October 12, 2013 at 7:06 pmThere has been quite a few, but I would say Poison. I would love to read this book. Thanks for having the giveaway.
maggie.
October 12, 2013 at 9:05 pmI haven’t read much spooky YA, I’ll admit I’m a wuss. Out of what I’ve read I liked The Coldest Girl in Coldtown best.
Aden
October 12, 2013 at 9:10 pmGood question, maybe The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman? I’m not sure which creepy books I’ve read are YA though.
Jessica Noreault
October 13, 2013 at 12:43 amHmm…I don’t read a lot of “spooky” books, but as far as dark books go, I just finished Kit Grindstaff’s a Flame in the Mist, and once upon a time I read Laurie Stolarz Blue is for Nightmare’s series, and that was also really good.
Maureen
October 13, 2013 at 7:32 amAnna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake
DebraG
October 13, 2013 at 7:42 amI have not read too many so I will say Miss Peregrine’s
Greg
October 13, 2013 at 10:02 amHowls moving castle
LisaC
October 13, 2013 at 11:17 amI haven’t read any spooky YA, but Amanda Stevens has a very spooky adult series. The Jason Strange books are pretty creepy for young readers.
Evie
October 13, 2013 at 11:28 amThere’s something about Scott Westerfeld and it’s discussion of creepy crawly things that I find so spooky.
Marisa H
October 13, 2013 at 12:11 pmAfter Miss Peregrine’s School for Peculiar Children. Rick Yancey’s Monstrumologist series is awesomely creepy.
Anonymous
October 13, 2013 at 1:54 pmI loved Holly Black’s Doll Bones.
Meghan M.
October 13, 2013 at 2:19 pmThis is a tough one – I’ve had some great creepy recent reads – Holly Black’s The Coldest Girl in Coldtown, which was fabulous and old-school vampire cool. I also had to go check out We Have Always Lived in the Castle, after reading the great review here praising it highly. It was absolutely awesome and spooky and I loved it. I also don’t know if A Monster Calls, by Patrick Ness, really counts as horror (??) but I absolutely love it and I really shouldn’t read it before bed anymore because it both makes me cry and gets me very spooked. 🙂
Kristen H.
October 13, 2013 at 3:25 pmI love the Grimm stories by Adam Gidwitz. 🙂
Anonymous
October 13, 2013 at 7:33 pmi love anna dressed in blood!!!
charlee alsup
October 13, 2013 at 7:33 pmi love anna dressed in blood!!!
Ke-shaunta Francis
October 14, 2013 at 8:24 amAnything by R.L. Stine. Also I loved Patient Zero by Johnathan Maberry & The Anna Dressed In Blood Series by Kendare Blake.
Gwen
October 14, 2013 at 12:11 pmI love these books so much i can’t stand it
Gwen
October 14, 2013 at 12:13 pmRansom Riggs can get pretty creepy in my opinion but Sthephen is the King of horror
Justine
October 14, 2013 at 7:38 pmDoes Edgar Allan Poe count as YA? Because his works will always be the spookiest to me.
myra c
October 14, 2013 at 8:06 pmI don’t read many spook YA books but one I remember reading is 172 Hours on the Moon by Johan Harstad
Becky C.
October 15, 2013 at 10:55 amA Monster Calls
stef
October 15, 2013 at 2:02 pmMiss Peregrine’s ranks pretty high– I couldn’t read it with the lights out, haha. My favourite spooky read is the ‘Blue is for Nightmares’ series by Laurie Faria Stolarz.
Susan C.
October 15, 2013 at 2:44 pmOoh, I’m in love with The Lynburn Legacy books (Unspoken and Untold). I also really enjoyed Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea.
Mia
October 15, 2013 at 5:32 pmI’m not sure if I have a favorite, but a few good ones were The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly, The Replacement by Brenna Yovanoff, and Dollhouse by Anya Allyn. And, of course, Miss Peregrine.
@Lan, I LOVE Wait Till Helen Comes. One of my favorite ghost stories growing up.
Hailee
October 15, 2013 at 5:36 pmMiss Peregrine’s is definitely one of my favorite YAs! It’s been a while since I’ve read other spooky YA stories, but I loved What the Night Knows by Dean Koontz for adults.
Emma
October 15, 2013 at 7:16 pmI think the spookiest YA I’ve read is The Diviners or Coldest Girl in Coldtown.
Ray Pratt
October 16, 2013 at 8:35 pmRay Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes
Hannah
October 17, 2013 at 5:41 pmI haven’t read any yet sadly! But so many i want to get my hands on!!
Thanks for the awesome giveaway!<3
Lena Marsteller
October 18, 2013 at 4:01 pmI love reading Nancy Drew, and Kim Harrington books:D