Book Report: Travel To The Labyrinthine Ally Of Devils Acres

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“I heard you speak with monster’s tongue. It’s a miracle” It’s not,” I said, kneeling beside him.” “It’s gone, I have already lost it” “If gift inside you, is forever.”(Riggs 21). In the book so far Jacob, Emily, Allison (a dog that can talk). Travel to a modern day London to the labyrinthine ally of Devils Acres. Jacob learns that he can talk to the hollows. When he is talking in a different language. The three of them are in the bad and scary place right now. Based on the authors writing, I can easily predict and the question what is going to happen next.

I can make many predictions in this book. I predict that they are going to escape from the wights and we go to the library to see if there are books about where they are. The second prediction

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