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The Desolations of Devil's Acre

by Ransom Riggs

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Series: Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children (6)

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"The last thing Jacob Portman saw before the world went dark was a terrible, familiar face. Suddenly, he and Noor are back in his grandfather's house. Jacob doesn't know how they escaped from V's loop, but he does know one thing for certain: Caul has returned. Risen from the Library of Souls, Caul and his apocalyptic agenda seem unstoppable. Only one hope remains--deliver Noor to the meeting place of the seven prophesied ones, if they can decipher its secret location"--… (more)
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With a larger-than-life villain creating larger-than-life henchmen and a prophecy to fulfill, Miss Peregrine's wards will need to use every tool at their disposal to keep peculiardom from being enslaved.

What started as a unique, interesting idea has devolved into a repetitive, boring mess. There are characters and relationships I just couldn't care less about (though that has been an issue for me from the beginning). There is more than one deliberate mislead that just made me feel lied to by the time I'd finished the book. Riggs basically mangles his own foundational lore in this book. And in the end, it all just felt like a watered-down rinse and repeat of the first trilogy's end.

I wouldn't necessarily say that Riggs should have stopped after the first trilogy, because he'd already created an interesting world that has a lot of possibilities. However, he definitely should have put more distance between the two trilogies, whether that meant evolving Jacob's abilities in some way, having a different main character (because, let's face it, with Jacob's peculiarity, there's only so much variety in what he can help fight against), or maybe even finding an entirely different group of peculiars to focus on. I now own every book in the series, buying them along the way, but wish I'd have read the last few before deciding to purchase them. I prefer to only own books that I plan to re-read someday, and while I may go back through the first trilogy, I would know to stop there in the future. For anyone else reading this series, certainly keep going if you've enjoyed it so far; plenty of others liked the this book more than I did anyway. ( )
  Kristi_D | Sep 22, 2023 |
A perfect ending. ( )
  eurydactyl | Jul 20, 2023 |
***Contains Spoilers***

The (hopefully) last entry in the Peculiar Children series. There is a lot of action in this book and I find action very difficult to follow so I ended up being bored. It could've easily been 200 pages shorter. Like, what was even the point of going to meet the other light eaters? They didn't do anything but complain and then die. ( )
  LynnMPK | Jun 28, 2023 |
Fantastic! I have yet to be disappointed by any of Riggs' books ( )
  avengewash | Jan 18, 2023 |
My review of this book can be found on my Youtube Vlog at;

https://youtu.be/Gha350FOxXA

Enjoy! ( )
  booklover3258 | Jun 25, 2021 |
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Sometimes an old photograph, an old friend,
an old letter will remind you that you are not who you once were,
for the person who dwelt among them, valued this, chose that,
wrote thus, no longer exist. Without noticing it you have traversed
a great distance; the strange has become familiar and the familiar
if not strange at least awkward or uncomfortable.
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For Jodi Reamer, slayer of beasts.
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For a long time there is only darkness and the sound of distant thunder and the hazy sensation of falling.
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"The last thing Jacob Portman saw before the world went dark was a terrible, familiar face. Suddenly, he and Noor are back in his grandfather's house. Jacob doesn't know how they escaped from V's loop, but he does know one thing for certain: Caul has returned. Risen from the Library of Souls, Caul and his apocalyptic agenda seem unstoppable. Only one hope remains--deliver Noor to the meeting place of the seven prophesied ones, if they can decipher its secret location"--

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