The Desolations of Devil's Acre by Ransom Riggs

 

Language: English

Format: Hardcover

Pages: 512

Genre: YA fantasy, mystery

Rating: 4⭐

"The fate of peculiardom hangs in the balance in this epic conclusion to the Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children series.

The last thing Jacob Portman saw before the world went dark was a terrible, familiar face.

Suddenly, he and Noor are back in the place where everything began - his grandfather's house. Jacob doesn't know how they escaped from V's loop to find themselves in Florida. But he does know one thing for certain: Caul has returned.

After a narrow getaway from a blood-thirsty hollow, Jacob and Noor reunite with Miss Peregrine and the peculiar children in Devil's Acre. The Acre is being plagued by desolations - weather fronts of ash and blood and bone - a terrible portent of Caul's amassing army.

Risen from the Library of Souls and more powerful than ever, 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."

What a book! 

The full story book made me shiver! First I was really lost: not sure if it was Jacob or Noor. It took me the entire 1st chapter to understand what happened at the end of the last book and to understand what was going on (great job Riggs!)

After come Devil's Arc situation: Desolation everywhere and the atmosphere full of fear, terror and mistrust that was tangible.

We are talking about Caul, a very bad guy that want to be treated like a God and if you don't want it, he simply go to make you suffer a lot.

Caul and his allies show the real faces and power they now have thanks to the Library of Souls. 

Not only you have the Hollowgates and Wights but also a lot of Peculiares that are just mean like Caul and the worst part is that they don't care of the consequences or who they gonna hurt: they just want to create caos and please Caul. 

And now you think of the Americans: how about them? Allies or enemies? Well it's a mix of both: they don't want to have Caul as a cruel god but they want to be free looped (free to get out of the loop without the problem of dying in 24h). It's a 50-50 situation.

One of the best part was to discover the true meaning of the prophecy regarding Noor and the 6 others special kids and also the origin of Jacob's peculiarity.

The ending? WOW but the last chapter? ahmmm sorry but I was thinking about something else but the kids deserved it just like it was.