A Map of Days (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children #4)
Author: Ransom Riggs
Publisher: Dutton
Publication Date: October 2, 2018
Pages: 480
Format: Audiobook/Library
The #1 bestselling series returns with a thrilling new story arc set in America!
Vintage photographs reveal the never-before-seen world of peculiar America with a stunning addition—full-color images.
Having defeated the monstrous threat that nearly destroyed the peculiar world, Jacob Portman is back where his story began, in Florida. Except now Miss Peregrine, Emma, and their peculiar friends are with him, and doing their best to blend in. But carefree days of beach visits and normalling lessons are soon interrupted by a discovery—a subterranean bunker that belonged to Jacob’s grandfather, Abe.
Clues to Abe’s double-life as a peculiar operative start to emerge, secrets long hidden in plain sight. And Jacob begins to learn about the dangerous legacy he has inherited—truths that were part of him long before he walked into Miss Peregrine’s time loop.
Now, the stakes are higher than ever as Jacob and his friends are thrust into the untamed landscape of American peculiardom—a world with few ymbrynes, or rules—that none of them understand. New wonders, and dangers, await in this brilliant next chapter for Miss Peregrine’s peculiar children. Their story is again illustrated throughout by haunting vintage photographs, but with a striking addition for this all-new, multi-era American adventure—full color.
Library of Souls (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children #3)
Author: Ransom Riggs
Publisher: Quirk Books
Publication Date: September 22, 2015
Pages: 464
Format: Audiobook/Library
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.
Hollow City (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children #2)
Author: Ransom Riggs
Publisher: Quirk Books
Publication Date: January 14, 2014
Pages: 400
Format: Audiobook/Library
This second novel begins in 1940, immediately after the first book ended. Having escaped Miss Peregrine’s island by the skin of their teeth, Jacob and his new friends must journey to London, the peculiar capital of the world. Along the way, they encounter new allies, a menagerie of peculiar animals, and other unexpected surprises.
Complete with dozens of newly discovered (and thoroughly mesmerising) vintage photographs, this new adventure will delight readers of all ages.
Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children #1)
Author: Ransom Riggs
Publisher: Quirk Books
Publication Date: June 7, 2011
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback/Own
A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience. As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that the children were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They may have been quarantined on a deserted island for good reason. And somehow-impossible though it seems-they may still be alive. A spine-tingling fantasy illustrated with haunting vintage photography, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children will delight adults, teens, and anyone who relishes an adventure in the shadows.
The Immortal Rules (Blood of Eden #1)
Author: Julie Kagawa
Publisher: Harlequin Teen
Publication Date: April 24, 2012
Pages: 504
Source: Galley from NetGalley
In a future world, Vampires reign. Humans are blood cattle. And one girl will search for the key to save humanity.
Allison
Sekemoto survives in the Fringe, the outermost circle of a vampire
city. By day, she and her crew scavenge for food. By night, any one of
them could be eaten.
Some days, all that drives Allie is her hatred of them.
The vampires who keep humans as blood cattle. Until the night Allie
herself is attacked—and given the ultimate choice. Die… or become one of
the monsters.
Faced with her own mortality, Allie becomes what
she despises most. To survive, she must learn the rules of being
immortal, including the most important: go long enough without human
blood, and you will go mad.
Then Allie is forced to flee into the
unknown, outside her city walls. There she joins a ragged band of
humans who are seeking a legend—a possible cure to the disease that
killed off most of humankind and created the rabids, the mindless
creatures who threaten humans and vampires alike.
But it isn't
easy to pass for human. Especially not around Zeke, who might see past
the monster inside her. And Allie soon must decide what—and who—is worth
dying for.
Review: OMG!! This book is seriously good!!! I stayed up til almost one in the morning reading this because I couldn't put it down! This is the best book I've read so far this year hands down! This is also hands down the best vampire book I've read (and I've read quite a few)! I loved how this took dystopian and put a whole new spin on it with the vampires! The whole idea of the vampires ruling and the humans either being forced to be blood cattle or unregistereds was really interesting and unique compared to the normal vampire stories (you know, vampires living among the humans, just killing them when they needed blood etc..)! And don't even get me started on the Rabids! The humans that failed to turn into Vampires, just being rabid, crazed animals, forever filled with the hunger, attacking anything that moves pretty much! I could seriously feel Allie & the other humans fear whenever Rabids were around! I could really feel Allie's emotions throughout the entire book, not to mention I could clearly picture everything that was happening throughout the entire book! It was written that well!
I really felt for Allie! She seriously despised vampires and then after being attacked she was forced to become one or die! I mean, I would have done the same thing in her place but I really felt for her. Becoming something you hate. Not to mention she was forced out on her own not long after becoming one! Man, she just couldn't catch a break! Now Zeke and the group... I really liked them... err... well, most of them. Lol. They took her in when she had no idea where to go and treated her like a part of their little family, until they learned what she was. It really annoyed me that everyone would flip out on her after learning what she was! I mean her actions proved that she wasn't like the vampires Jeb described (which was how some other vamps did act in the book) but they wouldn't see it! Have we ever heard the phase "Action speaks louder...?" I'm pretty sure her actions showed she wasn't like the stereotype people thought about vampires. And I'm glad that by the end of the book many of them realized that! I was really happy when Zeke decided to trust her and let her help him and everyone else when they needed it! I definitely cant wait for the next book, to see where the story goes next!
5 Stars!
