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The Desolations of Devil's Acre by Ransom Riggs

cjeanne99's review against another edition

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medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Loveable characters? Yes

3.0

Finally - we’re done. My love for the first books in the series kept me slugging through. In this final book - we have a serious breach in the ymbryne world of Loops - Miss Peregrine's brother Caul has gained power that he intends to use to take over the peaceful world that the ymbrynes have built.
We still have Noor - "one of the seven" who were prophesied to be able to take on the evil in a battle in the ymbryne world.  The evil that is now manifest in Caul. Are we finally going to learn more about the prophecy?
The book is not without action - we have wights, hollowgasts, explosions, death, destruction, a loop that is inside a tornado. Enoch gets to bring someone back to life. But - at times I felt like Riggs was driving his narrative to fit the funky  pictures he found - instead of letting those characters settle into the book on their own.
He gets that effect towards the end when he mentions that one of Miss Wren's charges was sitting quietly playing the banjo.

The switch up with the prophecy not exactly being true was just wrong for me.
I felt like Nelson Muntz popped up and said "You thought you needed all seven to fulfill the prophecy. Ha Ha!
The ending with Miss P was nice - and a good way to end the series.  I emphasize the word end - because of course they could continue to have adventures - now that Jacob has joined them. If they do - I don't plan on reading them. 

ria_22's review against another edition

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4.0

such a good series

vbeth01's review against another edition

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adventurous dark tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

neko_sol's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

zoereads88's review against another edition

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2.0

Great concept, as usual, but I found this so boring. The charm of the earlier books in the series was lost.

lynessasedai's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging emotional tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

angiebks's review against another edition

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adventurous hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? N/A
  • Diverse cast of characters? N/A
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

bets_reads's review against another edition

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dark medium-paced

3.0

morganschmidt55's review against another edition

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3.0

“In the end, our real home had always been one another. And a real home was all I’d ever wanted.”

This book was too much for me and I didn't like it. There were way too many characters for the author to provide any sort of decent characterization and there was too much plot and it was scattered and all over the place. Additionally,
Spoiler the final battle was all of about 10 pages when it all boiled down to it?
. It's unfortunate that these books had to end this way, but I just couldn't do it. It should have been left at three.

altheabecky's review against another edition

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3.0

i am become hollowgast.


easily could’ve had the whole thing compressed into a chunky trilogy. the whole planned plot went nowhere and when riggs tried to tie it back to devil’s acre in the end, it felt like we never left at all. overall, it felt too light to warrant its own extension. the new elements could’ve been easily incorporated into the initial trilogy, not have their own extension trilogy where they meant almost nothing. to name a few: 1) lighteaters lore? their relevance, 2) other existing prophecies that dictated events in peculiar history, 3) velya-harold-abe lore bc they were so overhyped but barely elaborated on, 4) bentham??? where is he???, and 5) other american loops yada yada. i have so many unanswered questions and these are just off the top of my head. it fell off really badly, unfortunately. 

still a banger world, and the extension trilogy had its moments, but it just felt repetitive and lackluster compared to the original.