The Desolations of Devil's Acre (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children)

Product Description Instant #1 bestseller!The epic conclusion to the #1 bestselling Miss Peregrines Peculiar Children series by Ransom Riggs.Jacob and his friends will face deadly enemies and race through historys most dangerous loops in this thrilling page-turner. The Desolations of Devil's Acre is the newest installment, and final adventure, in the beloved Miss Peregrines Peculiar Children series. The last thing Jacob Portman saw before the world went dark was a terrible, familiar face. Suddenly, he and Noor are back in the place where everything beganhis grandfathers house. Jacob doesnt know how they escaped from Vs loop to find themselves in Florida. But he does know one thing for certain: Caul has returned. After a narrow getaway from a blood- thirsty hollow, Jacob and Noor reunite with Miss Peregrine and the peculiar children in Devils Acre. The Acre is being plagued by desolationsweather fronts of ash and blood and bonea terrible portent of Cauls amassing army. Risen from the Library of Souls and more powerful than ever, Caul and his apocalyptic agenda seem unstoppable. Only one hope remainsdeliver Noor to the meeting place of the seven prophesied ones. If they can decipher its secret location. Review Praise for the #1 Bestselling Miss Peregrines Peculiar Children series A New York Times Bestseller A USA Today Bestseller A Wall Street Journal BestsellerAn International Bestseller A visually rich literary experience. New York Times Book Review Boy, can Ransom Riggs tell a story. NPR.org Chilling, wondrous. People Ransom Riggs [is] at the peak of his powers, leaving loyal fans ravenous for more. New York Journal of Books The pulse-pounding [series] continues . . . lost friends are found, boundaries tested, and more surprising history is revealed. Booklist David Lynchian imagery, and rich eerie detail. Entertainment Weekly [A] thrilling, Tim Burton-esque tale with haunting photographs. USA Today Weirdly wonderful characters. io9 A tense, moving, and wondrously strange first novel. The photographs and text work together brilliantly to create an unforgettable story. John Green, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Turtles All the Way Down and The Fault in Our Stars About the Author Ransom Riggsis the #1New York Timesbestselling author of the Miss Peregrines Peculiar Children novels. Riggs was born on a farm in Maryland and grew up in southern Florida. He studied literature at Kenyon College and film at the University of Southern California. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, bestselling author Tahereh Mafi, and their family. Excerpt. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. For a long time there is only darkness and the sound of distant thunder and the hazy sensation of falling. Beyond that I have no self, no name. No memory. I am aware, dimly, that I used to have these things, but now they are gone and I am nearly nothing. A single photon of failing light circling a hungry void. It wont be long now. Ive lost my soul, Im afraid, but I cant remember how. All I can recall are slow, churning cracks of thunder, and within them the syllables of my name, whatever it used to be, drawn out until unrecognizable. That and the dark are all there is, for a long time, until another sound joins the thunder: wind. Then rain, too. There is wind, and thunder, and rain, and falling. Something is coming into being, one sensation at a time. I am rising from the trench, escaping the void. My single photon becomes a flashing cluster. I feel something rough against my face. I hear the creaking of ropes. The flap of something caught in the wind. Perhaps I am on a boat. Trapped in the lightless belly of some storm-tossed ship. One eye blinks open. Forms thrash dimly above me. A row of swinging pendulums. Overwound clocks all out of sync, groaning, gears about to break. I blink and t

FEATURES