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The Conference of the Birds by Ransom Riggs
3.25
This book felt like it was three scenes long, and I know it wasn't, but wow...
The Conference of the Birds is the fifth book in the Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children series, and it's also where I left off on my last read-through, so this was a new story for me. Honestly, this series has been kind of going downhill for a while in my opinion, but this book felt like nothing happened?
Picking up where the last book left off, Jacob and his friends are now back in the acre and trying to figure out why the wights wanted Noor so badly. They figure it out relatively quickly, and then suddenly we're in the epilogue... Maybe it was the circumstances in which I was reading this, or maybe I'm just stupid, but I felt like 80% of this book were filler scenes and that only a few actually important things happened. That being said, I felt like the pacing was rapidfire (although that could be me coming off the 800+ pages of Onyx Storm), which was good, I just didn't feel like there was really an important storyline throughout the book. The ending itself was decent, but it definitely didn't make up for the rest of the book.
Also, the characters barely develop in this book. The romance is absolutely horrendous in my opinion, and Jacob hasn't matured, like, at all since book three. As much as I find Noor interesting, she doesn't have a strong personality. All of the other characters aren't really relevant, although I was glad Hugh got a bit more page time. I wasn't super mad that the characters don't have much complexity, I'm just getting tired of them.
The Conference of the Birds is the fifth and penultimate book in the Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children series, and while I didn't find it to be particularly attention-grabbing, it sets up for an intriguing conclusion to the popular series.
3.25/5
The Conference of the Birds is the fifth book in the Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children series, and it's also where I left off on my last read-through, so this was a new story for me. Honestly, this series has been kind of going downhill for a while in my opinion, but this book felt like nothing happened?
Picking up where the last book left off, Jacob and his friends are now back in the acre and trying to figure out why the wights wanted Noor so badly. They figure it out relatively quickly, and then suddenly we're in the epilogue... Maybe it was the circumstances in which I was reading this, or maybe I'm just stupid, but I felt like 80% of this book were filler scenes and that only a few actually important things happened. That being said, I felt like the pacing was rapidfire (although that could be me coming off the 800+ pages of Onyx Storm), which was good, I just didn't feel like there was really an important storyline throughout the book. The ending itself was decent, but it definitely didn't make up for the rest of the book.
Also, the characters barely develop in this book. The romance is absolutely horrendous in my opinion, and Jacob hasn't matured, like, at all since book three. As much as I find Noor interesting, she doesn't have a strong personality. All of the other characters aren't really relevant, although I was glad Hugh got a bit more page time. I wasn't super mad that the characters don't have much complexity, I'm just getting tired of them.
The Conference of the Birds is the fifth and penultimate book in the Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children series, and while I didn't find it to be particularly attention-grabbing, it sets up for an intriguing conclusion to the popular series.
3.25/5