The #1 bestselling series returns with a thrilling new story arc set in America!
Vintage photographs reveal the never-before-seen world of peculiar America with a stunning addition-full-color images.Having defeated the monstrous threat that nearly destroyed the peculiar world, Jacob Portman is back where his story began, in Florida. Except now Miss Peregrine, Emma, and their peculiar friends are with him, and doing their best to blend in. But carefree days of beach visits and normalling lessons are soon interrupted by a discovery-a subterranean bunker that belonged to Jacob's grandfather, Abe.
Clues to Abe's double-life as a peculiar operative start to emerge, secrets long hidden in plain sight. And Jacob begins to learn about the dangerous legacy he has inherited-truths that were part of him long before he walked into Miss Peregrine's time loop.
Now, the stakes are higher than ever as Jacob and his friends are thrust into the untamed landscape of American peculiardom-a world with few ymbrynes, or rules-that none of them understand. New wonders, and dangers, await in this brilliant next chapter for Miss Peregrine's peculiar children. Their story is again illustrated throughout by haunting vintage photographs, but with a striking addition for this all-new, multi-era American adventure-full color.
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[Never have I doubted my soundness of mind as often as I did on that first night, when the bird woman and her wards came to save me from the mad house]***
(Dutton Books for Young Readers, 2 October 2018, 496 pages, ebook, borrowed from @GlasgowLib via @OverDriveLibs)
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I've read and loved the other books in the series so was really looking forward to this latest adventure featuring Miss Peregrine's charges. A Map of Days is a good book and I enjoyed it but not quite as much as the other books. The other books are a lot more intense and dramatic and this is less so. This felt like a bit of a damp squid in comparison. It is a good read but not quite as brilliant as the other books. This book is set in America and the life of Peculiar Children is very different. For a start, they don't have a Miss Peregrine looking after them so life is a lot harder. This took a bit of getting used to. The book got a lot better when Jacob and the gang start to look into Abe's past and I found myself falling in love again. As ever, I enjoyed the photographs scattered throughout the book.
