Library of Souls ~ Ransom Riggs

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.

Book Review:

Ransom Riggs ends his Miss Perengrine's Peculiar Children trilogy with the final instalment, Library Of Souls, as Jacob and the other peculiars race to save the ymbrynes. It was captivating from the very beginning, I was unable to put it down. Plus, I own a signed copy which is exciting within its self. 

Jacob and Emma are my favorite characters. I love their relationship. I love how they feed off of each other, how they both of are really protective of each other and the other peculiars, but most of all, of Miss Peregrine. Each of them have their own relationship with her and though they are very similar relationships, you can tell how different they are as well. 

I still don't understand how Riggs, is able to create this entire world and characters around these old photographs that he has just happened upon. The amount of talent that he has is beyond comprehension. 

I'm just going to move onto the spoilery section now because writing a non-spoilery review for a third installment is hard...

Book Discussion: SPOILERS:

I loved how Jacob's "ability" developed. I loved that it was the same ability that was his Grandfather's and how that made him feel even closer to him, though its still kind of weird with the Emma situation. I was really excited when he was able to control all of those hollows. It was an exhilarating part of the novel to read. I'm fairly certain that my heart was ready to jump out of my chest for him and the others. 

I was also really happy that he was able to reunite with his parents in the end, even though they thought that he was insane and forced him into therapy. I thought the ending was hilarious when Miss Peregrine and the other kids showed up. I really thought his parents were going to have heart attacks or something just as terrible. Though I loved how Riggs inserted the ending with some closure, I really wish there was going to be a novella or fourth novel because I really want to know how things turned out for them, partiularly Jacob and Emma, in the end. 

Favorite Quote:

“Early in life we recognize certain talents in ourselves, and we focus on those to the exclusion of others. It’s not that nothing else is possible, but that nothing else was nurtured.”