Riggs isn’t kidding – the children* certainly are peculiar. Emma can make fire with her hands. Millard is invisible. Hugh has bees living in his stomach. There’s also Olive, the levitating girl, and Claire, who is a backmouth . (I’ll let you read the book to discover what that is on your own.) And it’s not just the children who have “gifts;” their headmistress Miss Peregrine can in fact morph into a bird at will! So it stands to reason that the food this strange cast partakes in must also be “special,” right? Not so much. Newcomer Jacob joins them for a dinner consisting of: a roasted goose, its flesh a perfect golden brown; a whole salmon and a whole cod, each outfitted with lemons and fresh dill and pats of melting butter; a bowl of steamed mussels; platters of roasted vegetables; loaves of bread still cooling from the oven; and all manner of jellies and sauces [he] didn’t recognize. Okay, maybe that’s not a typical American dinner, but Jacob has come a very long way - to a re...
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