Who Is Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children Trilogy?

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The Library of Souls is the last installment of the Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children Trilogy. By Ransom Riggs, the last installment immediately takes place after the second installment, and hooks the reader until the end, with a great conclusion to the trilogy. The unique part in the book does not disappoint, with the creepy-looking vintage pictures, they help you visualize more of the story. The story first takes place in present London, where Emma, a girl who can control fire, and Addison, a talking dog, are with Jacob, the protagonist that has the unique peculiar talent of seeing hollows, which are former peculiars who were turned into a monstrous being with tentacle-like tongues spooling out of the beings mouth. If hollows eat enough …show more content…
Emma, Addison, and Jacob are trapped by a hollow, after their peculiar friends and Miss Peregrine, a ymbryne, which are manipulators of time that turn into birds. Jacob then learns a new unique talent, that he could control hollows by speaking hollow tongue. He controls the hollow and narrowly escape and head to another loop, Devil’s Acre, to find their friends and rescue Miss Peregrine. Devil’s Acre is a dangerous loop, where all the outcasts and notorious criminals live. The hollow that Jacob controlled followed the group into the loop, which is a slip up from Ransom Riggs, hollows aren’t able to enter loops, only wights are able to and the peculiars. The hollow is believed dead when it crashes into a bridge, and it collapses, with pirates on it. They then find a man named Bentham, who turns out to be one of Miss Peregrine’s brothers. Bentham’s house contained many doors that leaded to many loops, but they didn’t work because the machine that operates it is broken, and the only way to fix it is by having a hollow. They find out that the hollow that was believed dead was actually alive, in a rink that, if peculiars were brave enough, attempted to kill the hollow, and they fail. Jacob enters the rink and rescues the hollow, brings it back to

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