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I read the six books in the Miss Peregrine's Children series, by Ransom Riggs:
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children,
Hollow City,
Library of Souls,
A Map of Days,
The Conference of the Birds,
The Desolations of Devil’s Acre.
The collection constitutes two trilogies. Books one, two, four and five all leave you hanging to some extent. Book three (Library of Souls) ties everything off to a satisfying conclusion, so you can happily stop there; ditto book six.
The photos embedded in the first book are interesting and I thought did add something to the story, if nothing else it gave it a different feel. But as the series progresses the photos start to feel more and more gimmicky, with sentences or characters obviously added just so a photo has somewhere to fit.
I liked the first trilogy very much. It was different and entertaining. Each of the books earned a comfortable 4/5 from me.
The second trilogy is let down by its first book which felt like mostly filler to me; it gets a 3/5 only because it picks up right at the end. The last two books are fast and action packed, albeit a bit much like a re-run of the first trilogy. 4/5, but only just.
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