Library of Souls
picks up where Hollow City left off, with 16 year-old Jacob Portman and teen
looking Emma Bloom (who is well over 100) following the vanishing trail of
their kidnapped friends, who’ve disappeared into the Devil’s Acre, the most
dangerous loop in all of peculiardom. Here are the outcasts of the Peculiars, the
exiles, the criminals, and the drug addicts that all exist within the dark heart
of the paradise, along with the villainous wights. But all may not be lost, as Jacob and Emma encounter
an unlikely benefactor, who with his ingenious loop-making machine, will finally
be able help them make their final stand in place where the fate of every
peculiar children will be decided once and for all.
With the conclusion, author Ransom Riggs gives us a satisfying,
tense, often strange and moving ending to a series that rose above the mere
expectations of being just another Harry Potter tale. We get a wonderful voice
in Jacob, who comes off as a very convincing with a believable transformation from
awkward young man to the Chosen One (yes, I know. But there is only so many
ways to tell these tales). Still this X Men meets many British World War II Costume
Dramas meets Doctor Who (the whole Panloopticon reminds me of the serial Carnival
of Monsters) rises above the rest of books in this genre. Along with those
sometimes creepy photographs, Ransom prose work brings together a fun, dark
tale that brims with excitement.
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