Madame Eldridge’s Wayward Home for Unruly Boys by Benjamin Ryan
After finding the review request for this book, I requested it at BookSirens and received it for free. This is the first book I have ever received! I downloaded it right onto my ebook and started reading.
Madame Eldridge’s Wayward Home for Unruly Boys is a Young Adult Fantasy book about a Wayward home in the Virginia forest. At this home, the boys have to complete an eight-step program under the watch of Madame Eldridge. Al the boys have there own problem the need to work on, one is a lier, the other keeps secrets and everysingle one of them got sent there by their parents to get rid of it. They aren’t allowed to keep anything from their past life at home, not even their names. At home, there is more than meets the eye, and the boys need to work together to find out what it is and to keep each other safe.
“If you don’t, one day, you may tell the truth about something extremely important, and no one will believe you. We can’t protect you forever.” “You don’t want to be the boy who cried wolf.”
Benjamin Ryan, Madame Eldridge’s Wayward Home for Unruly Boys
This was such a fantastic book to dive into. It’s a shorter book than I usually read, but there weren’t a lot of pages needed to get me invested in the story and the characters. This book has a fascinating magic system, and I hope there will be a prequel of Peculiar’s story to discover the magic system even more. During the book's first half, you learn a lot about the boys and the dynamic between them, but from the very first chapters, a lot is already happening. I wanted to keep reading all the time, and I finished the book in a couple of days.
“If I promise never to lie again, will you not call me Fibbsy?” “Why would I believe a liar like you could ever fulfill his end of such a bargain so quickly?”
Benjamin Ryan, Madame Eldridge’s Wayward Home for Unruly Boys
I found it a really good book. The only reason I will not give it five stars is that I found it a bit too predictable for a Young Adult book. If I would recommend this book to someone, I would recommend it to a kid who’s only switching from Middle Grate books to Young Adult books.
Madame Eldridge’s Wayward Home for Unruly Boys gets four stars.
