The Conference of the Birds by Ransom Riggs - OPTIONAL

 

The Conference of the Birds (Miss Peregrine’s Children, #5) by Ransom Riggs, 326 pages. Dutton Books (Penguin), 2020. $23. 

Content: Language: PG-13 (49 swears); Mature Content: PG; Violence: PG-13.  

BUYING ADVISORY: MS, HS – OPTIONAL  

AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE 

Jacob and his friends are on a mission to save the way of life of Peculiar Children.  They go about trying to find a person they believe can help them.  All the while, Jacob is dealing with his new feelings and a relationship for the Peculiar that he helped rescue from the last book and ending his relationship with Emma.  

I have enjoyed this series, until this book. I feel like the Peculiar Children part of the story is well done, but the reason I have read this far into the series is because I love Jacob and Emma, separate or together.  Their relationship abruptly ends, and the insta-love Jacob has for Noor is unbelievable, while Emma’s character hardly makes an appearance. If you have the other books in the series, then I’m sure your readers will want this one as well, but it has a spin-off feel to it that I don’t like as much as the first four books.  The violence includes a monster biting a head off. 

Reviewer, C. Peterson