Soon, they are joined by the Grim Reaper-esque boatman Sharon, whose boat tour they need to travel into a time loop known as Devil’s Acre – a wretched, Victorian-era slum populated by murderers, thieves, and the peculiar criminals who live there in exile. He was seven feet tall at least, his massive frame draped in a cloak and his face hidden beneath a dark hood. A man who’d been sitting in the boat – how had we not seen him until now?! – rose slowly to his feet, straightening himself inch by inch until he towered over us. Addison proves to be a resourceful ally, with his loyal yet uppity personality providing plenty of light comic relief.Įmma squealed, Addison yelped, and I nearly leapt out of my skin. The dire situation allows both characters to strengthen their relationship both believably and beautifully as events unfold, while undertaking a plan that is roughly 90% improvisation and will surely get them both killed. The omission of the rest of his peculiar friends is a wise one, even though they’re missed as much by the reader as by Jacob and Emma. It’s just him, Emma… and a talking dog called Addison. Where this third novel differs from the books that came before it is that the odds are now even less in Jacob’s favour. He can’t just see the hollow – he can talk to it.

Trapped in the modern-day London Underground and faced with a terrifying hollowgast, Jacob finally discovers his true peculiar power. Library of Souls is a fast-paced adventure from the outset, much like its predecessor.

The monster stood not a tongue’s length away, eyes fixed on our throats, shriveled brain crowded with fantasies of murder. It follows 2011’s Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, which Alternative Magazine Online described as “an utterly compelling and truly unforgettable book” and 2014’s Hollow City, which proved to be “a more than worthy follow-up.” Picking up right where the previous book’s cliffhanger ending left off, Library of Souls begins with Jacob and Emma barely alive, their friends kidnapped by the evil weights and Miss Peregrine still in mortal danger… can Jacob’s newly discovered powers be harnessed in time to save them?

Library of Souls by Ransom Riggs is the third (and possibly final) novel of Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children.

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