REVIEW: A Map of Days by Ransom Riggs

A Map of Days by Ransom Riggs
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I thought the Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children Series ended with the third book: Library of Souls. Hold and behold, imagine my surprise when I found out that a fourth book was in the making. A Map of Days gives a new life to the series starting where it left off in the third book. Jacob is about to be admitted to a loony bin by his father and his uncle when his peculiar friends show up to deliver him. There is something new about Miss Peregrine’s peculiars… they no longer risk to age rapidly when they travel in the future (or present depending on who you are). They are all assigned tasks in the rebuilding of the damaged loops and are not very happy about it. Jacob is hoping to follow in his grandfather's footsteps and that the ymbrynes will assign him missions in America to save peculiar children. It is not the case forcing Jacob to rebel and starts his own mission to save a special peculiar located in New York.

The book is sometimes slow, and the dialog is often childish, but the story is interesting and the end gives me hope that the next book will be quite exciting.

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