A Map of Days

Today’s post is on A Map of Days by Ransom Riggs. It is the fourth in his Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children and as such you need to have read the first three to understand the story. It is 481 pages long and is published by Dutton Books.  The cover has a picture of young girl on swing with a dark cloud behind her. The intended reader is someone who has read the first three books, likes urban fantasy, and fast paced plots. There is mild foul language, no sex, and mild violence in this book. The story is told from first person close of the main character, Jacob. There Be Spoilers Ahead.

From the dust jacket- 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.

Review- This book picks right where the last one finished with Jacob and company dealing with his parents. That plot line is dealt with within the first 70 pages and then we move on to the real plot of the book. Jacob discovers that his grandfather was saving peculiar children and getting them to loops and there are other things than hollowgasts that hunt peculiars. The story is, like the first three, a journey narrative with Jacob and Co. traveling to save a child who is very important from the bad guys, that we never really see in this novel. Riggs does not do anything new in this volume but he does expand the world and the people who live in it. Jacob was very understandable in this volume, as he is dealing with what his grandfather did, having to live in both worlds, and trying to discover what he wants to do with his peculiar ability. I am curious about where the story and characters are going now and I forward to reading the next one.

I give this novel a Four out of Five stars. I get nothing for my review and I borrowed this book from my local library.