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A series I am sad to see go.

The Desolation of Devil's Acre by Ransom Riggs

September 16, 2021 by chelz.hawk Leave a Comment

     “Stay safe, peculiar folk, it’s weird out there. And not in a good way.” Caul is back. And once again all of peculiardom is in danger. Loops are being raided and destroyed all over the world, sending refugee peculiars flooding into Devil’s Acre. But things in the acre are more than a little weird as it beings to rain  blood, bones, and ash. Noor and Jacob have no idea how they survived V’s loop and ended up back on Abe Portman’s front porch, […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: cbr13bingo, peculiars, Ransom Riggs, shelfie

chelz.hawk's CBR13 Review No:36 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: cbr13bingo, peculiars, Ransom Riggs, shelfie ·
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Peculiar fail saved by Sharon

February 18, 2017 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

I could almost title this review ‘Anticipation gone wrong again’. I loved Miss Peregrine’s Home etc. (vo.1), Hollow City was ok (vol. 2), and I had to force myself to get past page 20 of Library of Souls (vol.3). The first 150 pages felt twice as long as the second half. Terrified running from monsters in search of kidnapped pals isn’t interesting for that long. It’s also hard to pay attention when you’re really only following a few of the Peculiars, and only one of […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Young Adult Tagged With: miss peregrine, peculiars, Ransom Riggs

CoffeeShopReader's CBR9 Review No:9 · Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult · Tags: miss peregrine, peculiars, Ransom Riggs ·
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