How exactly does the time travelling work in this book?
More specifically, if all the children leave Miss Peregrine's Home on the morning of September 4th, 1940, why haven't they run into Abraham Portman yet and why didn't everyone know that the kids had left in the modern times when Jacob first came to the island?
I think because Abraham was no longer inside the loop to leave the loop, they don't see him outside it when they leave at the end of the book. I mean, within the constraints of the time loop, the kids are still aware of "the next day" and they can do different things everyday unlike the regular people on the island, so they aren't looping, technically, so I figure Abraham doesn't, either. Maybe there's some weird Timey-Wimey effect that makes you immune to that sort of thing after you've lived in a loop, aware of the loop. Of course Abraham could be out there, they just don't run into him.
Given that we now know what happens when a noncollapsed loop and a collapsed loop are near each other, I'm not sure. Also, the very idea of leapfrogging relies on everything being the same.
Also, they left in the dead of night, to make sure no one knew.
And they left by way of some rowboats, from a little-used part of the island. Abe walked right through town and caught the ferry over, so took off from another part of the island and probably went to another part of Britain.
If Millard is invisible, then why wasn't his blood invisible when he was shot?
Only things inside his skin and his hairs are invisible. We don't see the food that he eats after it enters his mouth.
Unless he chews with his mouth open, which further proves the point.
How did Enoch discover his power? was he just randomly shoving hearts into dead people?
Based on the movie, "peculiarities" somehow run in the family. Bother and sister sharing exceptional strength, the twins being whatever-they-are, grandfather and grandson having a second sight. So, it's possible that one of Enoch's parents was peculiar too. And running a funeral home. Sleep tight.
And why did he shout "rise dead-man" when he was raising Martin? It's obviously unnecessary because he doesn't do it in the 2nd book.
Dramatic effect...
What was even the purpose of the wights in making ambrosia anyway? I mean, I get that they were experimenting on peculiar soul extraction, but why give it to the peculiars living outside of their fort? Why didn't they just dump it or something?
It was all for learning how to impart soul and, therefore, powers, to new owners, which was how Caul ultimately intended on ruling peculiardom.
Also, they made and spreaded a drug to assure their control over the people nearby.
At the climax of Library of Souls, an epic kaiju battle destroys said library, where all Peculiar souls return upon death. Without that library, what's going to happen to the souls of Peculiars who die after that? Will their powers just disappear into the ether and eventually lead to the end of Peculiardom?
Wasn't the idea that peculiar souls were finite and needed to be returned to the library really more of an old superstition than anything else? There isn't really anything in the book to suggest that it was true. Besides, souls didn't go there automatically; dying peculiars had to travel there in person to "deposit" them. Considering that the loop with the library in it had been lost for ages before Library of Souls, and that there were still plenty of peculiars still alive, it's safe to say peculiardom is probably fine.
Can Bentham shapeshift into a bird like his siblings? If not, what is his peculiarity?
Caul might have had a separate peculiarity as well as the bird shapeshifting, so I'm not sure you're even asking the right question.
Specific to the film (haven't read the book), but how exactly does killing Barron in 2016 save Abraham's life? It's said that killing Barron prevents the experiment that created the hollows in the first place thus meaning Abraham can't be killed by one, but the Barron they kill isn't the "early" Barron who was preparing the original experiment, it's the Barron who, in his own timeline, has already carried out the experiment, created the hollows, killed Abe and is now prepping the next experiment. And what's more, they kill him in 2016, admittedly about a month or so before Abe dies, but that shouldn't matter given the linear experience of Barron and Jake themselves. On top of this at the end, after killing Barron, they explicitly mention the hollows as still being a threat, even though the only reason Abe is now alive (which he is) is because the hollows now apparently never existed. Have I missed something really obvious with the time travel here because it's kind of breaking my mind.
Bit of a Wild Mass Guess here, but it could work if Barron recruited at least one of the four hollowgasts that participate in the last battle from one of the Loops, rather than from Jake's time ... and unwittingly drafted his own former self into the group. We don't know how many years film-Barron spent as just another hollowgast, after all, or how well he remembers the period when he was still a blind, half-savage predator with little self-control. If 2016-Barron had forgotten that he'd been snooping around near Miss Peregrine's Loop in 1943, trying to pin down its location, and he just called up any hollowgasts in the area as extra muscle to guard his captives, then he might have unknowingly brought his own former self to 2016 along with him. In which case, 2016-Barron unwittingly got his own 1943-self killed in the battle with the animated skeletons ... or even by Jake's crossbow bolt (!), after eating his own eyes (!!!) just as unwittingly. With 1943-hollowgast Barron dead, history rewrites itself so that 'Barron'' no longer exists to track down Abe, but the other hollowgasts are still out there, wandering around as leaderless predators.
How is there a peculiarity relating to hollowgast vision and control if the hollows are abominations that were created artificially? Does peculiarity have adaptations that can develop for new purposes that have never existed before?
Presumably if someone was born with the peculiarity to see hollowgasts before there were any hollowgasts, they would go through life believing themselves to be normal, same as Jacob thinks he is before he actually encounters one. Possibly such non-functional peculiarities are quite common, but unrecognized due to them having nothing to work upon. If Hugh had been born in a future era when bees were extinct, he'd be a normal.
Explained in the third book. It's revealed that some peculiarities have functions beyond their primary manifestation. A peculiar healer puts forth the idea that some Peculiars might be able to do other things if it wasn't taken for granted that peculiarities have one purpose, they might be able to do more. For example, if Emma had come up differently, she might be able to manipulate more elements. It's later revealed that Jacob can see soul jars stored in an ancient Library, something that only people with his peculiarity are known to be capable of.
Explained further in the 6th book: The modern hollowgasts aren't the first hollowgasts. The originals were the Librarians of the aforementioned Library, visible, and otherwise just like the modern versions with the exception of being significantly nicer. They had kids who had a watered-down version and so on until you get peculiars like Abraham and Jacob Portman.
How is it a phone doesn't work in a loop while a modern car can?
Phones are dependent on satellites.
Not 100% of a phone is dependent on those: there's, say, the Camera app and all the actual hardware. However, he left his charger in the present and/or couldn't charge it in the loops due to
What exactly did Abe do his whole life? "Tracking down hollows and killing them"? The flashback shows 11 Peculiars turned by Barron's experiment, including himself. Miss Peregrine killed one, the Nazi bomb another, the 4 in the battle, the 4 humanized ones (train, squished, petrified, and elephant), and Barron himself. That's the 11. Did Abe really spend 60 years on this project with zero results?
It must be an Adaptation-Induced Plot Hole. The books never describe the experiment in detail; there would be a lot more hollowgasts in the books.
