
People are going to love or hate The Conference of the Birds, the fifth book in the Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children series by Ransom Riggs, as it moves slowly towards what should be book six sometime in 2021. Much like JK Rowling’s movie prequel series to the Harry Potter franchise, which has divided the fan base, one has to ask if this series was needed. Sure, it’s set in America, which opens a whole new universe of new Peculiar’s, but does it add anything to the first three books, which came to a satisfying conclusion in The Library of Souls?
Part of the problem is the book lies flat, and is often
dull between some remarkable violence for a kid’s book. Picking up shortly
after the Map of Days, this one introduces a prophecy that brings back (spoiler)
the villain from the first trilogy. Who was trapped in a loop he should NOT be
able to get out of. Can’t say this is a great development.
The book, as noted, has a bunch of savage-like
violence mixed in and leaves a lot of the charming humor aside. There is a forced
romance between Noor and Jacob, and it’s written very awkward-like (not in a
good way).
Overall, The Conference of the Birds is the weakest book of the
five, which maybe the reason Random House released the book three weeks after
Christmas. They knew the reviews would be savage.
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