Series: Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, Book 3
Author: Ransom Riggs
Publish Date: September 22, 2015
Publisher: Quirk Books
Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy, Paranormal, Horror
Started Reading: February 2, 2016
Finished Reading: February 10, 2016
A boy with extraordinary powers. An army of deadly monsters. An epic battle for the future of peculiardom.
The adventure that began with Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children and continued in Hollow City comes to a thrilling conclusion with Library of Souls. As the story opens, sixteen-year-old Jacob discovers a powerful new ability, and soon he’s diving through history to rescue his peculiar companions from a heavily guarded fortress. Accompanying Jacob on his journey are Emma Bloom, a girl with fire at her fingertips, and Addison MacHenry, a dog with a nose for sniffing out lost children.
They’ll travel from modern-day London to the labyrinthine alleys of Devil’s Acre, the most wretched slum in all of Victorian England. It’s a place where the fate of peculiar children everywhere will be decided once and for all. Like its predecessors, Library of Souls blends thrilling fantasy with never-before-published vintage photography to create a one-of-a-kind reading experience.
My Two Cents:
Goodreads Rating: 5 Stars (It's Amazing)
First and foremost, if you pick up this book and you haven't read the first two recently, read them again before you read this one! Library of Souls picks up at the exact instant that the second book lets off. I was actually a bit lost for the first couple of chapters because it had been a while since I'd read the previous books.
The story starts off running and doesn't stop. It's action and terror from the gate. The amount of story packed in here is so much that I was two thirds of the way through and really didn't believe that the story could be completed in the pages that were left. The end was satisfying though and had a nice bit of humour to finish the series off.
As with this whole series, I loved how the photos were used to bring the book to life. I read this in ebook format, so I didn't have forewarning when a picture was coming up. It was a nice surprise when they did, and I found myself trying to guess what scenes I was reading would have a picture to go along with it on the next page.
What struck me the most was how the main character's emotions and thoughts were written so vividly. He has some serious decisions to make and no clear answer as to which way is the correct path. The ambiguity of these choices and the emotions involved were so realistic in the fall out of how they were handled. There was no sugar coating in the moment, and while some choices were given their fairy tale happy ending, it wasn't the immediate solution.
To Sum Up: This was a fantastic conclusion to the series! I had to stop and look up if there were going to be more books because half way through I could see it being a cliff hanger and continuing on with so much left to tie up, but it all worked out in the end. Ransom Riggs did a phenomenal job writing this series and I'm very much looking forward to his book of Peculiar tales and the first movie coming out this year. I'm also glad that we will be seeing more of this world in Ransom's next book.
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