A riveting tale of adventure and peculiar stories needing to be told, Map of Days is the 4th installment in the Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children series. The longest book so far at 480 pages, Ransom Riggs has outdone himself in carrying on the journey of Jacob Portman and his several peculiar friends. Under the eye of Miss Peregrine, the children all display incredible abilities that ceases them from being in the public view to prevent mass chaos. From the ability to be light as air to controlling bees that live inside their stomach, they truly are a spectacle. However, with such powers comes at a cost, with the children being constantly hunted down. From invisible beasts who want to eat their eyes, agents who are chasing them down for no reason, to the peculiar world being threatened to be destroyed, it seems like the children will never hear the end of it. This book introduces new concepts, interesting characters, and has photographs that help drive the story.
Personally, it is not my favorite book of the entire series. I am very glad that Riggs decided to continue to the franchise, but I feel as though that the 4th novel was a stretch. If Riggs had kept it as a trilogy the ending to the 3rd book would have been a very thrilling end to a good series. On the contrary, now that he has continued the plot I feel as though it is a really good sequel. The new characters and new problems gives the series new flesh and allows for an opening to something new, but familiar. This young adult fantasy is definitely a good series to binge read on and one that will always keep you on your toes.
I've only read the first book of the series, but I was wondering why you thought that ending the series as a trilogy would be suffice? What was lacking in this fourth book that made you think that it was a stretch?
ReplyDeleteI can't reveal too much because it would spoil big plot points in the first three books. In that, the first three books all have a common enemy/goal that the characters were trying to conquer/reach. The fourth book is completely different seeing as the characters are seen trying to live with the aftermath of the first three books. Still a good book, but the ending to the first three could still have finish the series extraordinarily well.
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