***Let me begin by saying I have yet to read Library of Souls.***

*****Also, Spoilers Ahead*****

Alright, so I promised to update this whenever I finally watched the movie, which I just finished.

Can I just...

Emma is an airbender...

Olive is like 16, a redhead, and is some kind of weak-ass firebender (not half the strength of Emma's power, who she suddenly has)...

Enoch is jealous??? And cares about people???? Umm. And him and Olive get along super well from the start?

...WTF.

Okay so it only got worse from there. I remember Dr. Golan as being an older Indian man, maybe that was just how I imagined him, IDK, but he definitely wasn't basic white woman. He was also not Mr. Baron. That whole last third or so of the movie was nothing I remembered from the books. Carnival, sure. Miss Avocet, inaccurate. Literally everything, Inaccurate.

So anyway.

So I'm watching it with my boyfriend (who hasn't read the books) and I'm like, alright, they prepared me for the unrealistic ages, they prepared me for the sudden appearance of the twins, they prepared me for the swapped powers.

And then this little girl with braids and a bright smile comes flouncing up to Miss Peregrine and Jake, all chitter-chattering in an English accent, and Miss Peregrine is like, "oh, hello, fiona! need some carrots!"

...WHAT.

Fiona's whole thing was this wild girl from Ireland who was basically mute from the horrors she witnessed during the famine that killed a bunch of people. She and Hugh were two of the older kids, which is why they got along like they did and eventually get together in book two. But hey, what do I know? I only read the books.

._.

So the movie goes on with its terrible inaccuracies, consistently destroying my hopes that Cairnholm, while completely accurate to my image, would actually hold the story I read. 

It did not.

Then they shoe-horned in this thing at the end about "We're in January 2016" "No, we're in January 2016!" "let's go through the loop to January 2016!" "We left the island, it's now January 2016 and we're going to die unless we get to the loop to January 2016 that is created in January 2016 when you were from! We have to get to the present so we can avoid the present even though in the book when the loop closes it's still 1943! What is the second book! We don't need it!"

And then Abe was an English dude who said "Jake" instead of "Yakob" and Hugh gets one brief moment of glory (literally the whole reason I wrote Honeybee is because of that scene where he unleashes his bees in the meadow and is a badass and then a little while later does so again in the train station and then is all upset about it afterward because Bees are our friends and now so many are dead). And he's this like little kid who just sics a few bees on some dudes, which does nothing.

EVERYTHING WAS SO INACCURATE AND I WAS DYING.

I tried, so hard, just to watch it for what it was, but they didn't even utter the word wight, Miss P was taken captive, Jake never even discovers his ability to communicate with the Hollows, his relationship with Emma was utter crap, there was no explanatory box of letters ("This is why." anyone? Remember that??? I have not forgotten it in four years.), and I could go on but I won't.

I now open my comment section as free reign to defend or detest the movie. It was an alright movie, it was just horribly inaccurate compared to the books, and I desire never to watch it again. I will just continue writing Luminosity (the sequel to this) and pretending the movie never happened.

(however, should anyone make or know of a well-made fan movie that's more fitting, let me know, because I'd honestly prefer it to Tim Burton's. I had so much hope because Tim Burton was directing, and he- he killed it. It's dead. Only the books survived.)

*silent internal screaming*