Review: The Desolations of Devil's Acre

The Desolations of Devil's Acre by Ransom Riggs
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Well. Here it is. The conclusion to the adventure of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children...again. 

Though I have to say, this one manages to feel even more final than even Library of Souls did. It's got the sprawling length of A Map of Days and the unrelentingly fast pace of The Conference of the Birds - not only because we begin with the last book's cliffhanger finally getting resolved, but also because this one opens with a powerful punch, smack in the middle of a hurricane. And we thought the tornado in the last book was wild enough... 

But yes, with Caul and Murnau waging all the war on all of Peculiardom, it's only natural that Riggs goes all out in the finale, with tons of apocalypses on the daily and too many unexpected twists to count, including a few little tricks that I honestly never saw coming, and found truly horrifying and indicative of how much this series has grown in the decade since Riggs first started publishing it. To think we got the original trilogy, then the movie, then a new trilogy that set about undoing its predecessors' status quo with such a bloody vengeance...I honestly can't wait to see what Riggs gives us next, even if it's outside of Peculiardom. But to this series, I now bid another ave atque vale, likely for the last time. At least it doesn't have such a prolonged soul-crush of an epilogue like Library of Souls this time, that's for damn sure.

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