The Desolations of Devil's Acre

Today’s post is on The Desolations of Devil's Acre by Ransom Riggs. It is 503 pages long and is published by Dutton Books. As it is the sixth in the Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children series, you need to have read the first five volumes to understand the story. The cover is a picture of a young child being grabbed and pulled of the cover. There is some mild foul language, no sex, and violence in this novel. The story is told from first person close of Jacob, the main character. There Be Spoilers Ahead. 

From the dust jacket- 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.

Review- A fine conclusion to the long running series. Riggs has a lot to do in this novel to wrap up this series and I think that he does it well. Jacob and friends are racing against time as Caul has been resurrected and he has eaten some of the souls from the Library of Souls. So they need to gather the other light eaters so that they can eat Caul’s soul. It is very fast paced with no down time going from plot point to the next one pulling the reader along with them. Riggs wants to make sure that he answers as many long running questions as he can like why can Jacob understand the monsters and other details like that. I enjoyed this series overall, I do feel that halfway through the series, we changed streams but in general it was a fun and interesting series. Ii think that Riggs closes out the series on a high note and I am curious about what he is going to write next.

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