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Reviewer: Forrest Schultz schultz_forrest@yahoo.com 770-583-3258
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August 30, 2016
Armageddon: Peculiar Style !!
A Review of
Ransom Riggs Library of Souls: The Third Novel of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children (Quirk Books, 2015)
$18.99 458 pp ISBN: 978-1-59474-758-8
Reviewer: Forrest W. Schultz
The final volume of this trilogy provides more insight into the origin of the evils among the peculiars; examines the hopes "to make peculiardom great again" (p. 189); shows the good guys leaving their loopy safe havens and going on the offensive against the "hollows" and "wights", which results in an ultra-bizarre and super-ferocious Armageddon, in which crucial roles are played not only by Miss Peregrine but also by the contemporary American teenager Jacob Portman and his paramour Emma Bloom (the girl with fire), and a very peculiar dog Addison and lots of other bizarre beings and bizarre stuff too numerous to mention! And, finally, following the climactic dramatic victory by the good peculiars is a non-Armageddonish, but no less dramatic and happy ending I shall not mention but allow you to discover for yourself -- 'tis one of the finest endings I have ever read! Information on the author is available at www.ransomriggs.com and www.quirbooks.com.
Postscript: I am pleased to announce that Peculiardom has entered The Mythosphere where it received the Bizarro Maximus Award. Mr. Riggs, of course, was too modest to mention this -- it is what I myself saw directly by means of the particular kind of peculiar vision I have!
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