A Map of Days

Title: A Map of Days (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children #4)
Author: Ransom Riggs

Initial thoughts: Much anticipated and it did not disappoint. I'm excited to see where it goes.

So, the last book ended well. Like, things were mostly wrapped up, we had a fairly happy ending. We didn't know where things might go from here but everything looked hopeful. Then we get into this book and we have issues with his parents and his relationship with Emma is falling apart and things are going downhill rather quickly and the bright future/happy ending we were picturing for all of them is suddenly a distant light, lost in the fog of their immediate lives. So disappointing to see that fading away, but so much excitement to see where we're going. We get to explore America, we're dealing with racial issues because America's past is bloody and harsh. New Peculiars, new loops, new organizations and governments, clans, even a prophecy apparently. If Noor is one of the ones foretold to emancipate peculiardom, who are the others? Could Jacob be one? Or was his defeat of the Hollows and Wights unrelated, despite that it was potentially the catalyst to allow all this to start going. Though maybe America was so far distant from Europe that anything he did or didn't do over there had little to no effect on what will or won't happen in America. Yeah, he got rid of most of the hollows and wights, but they had been practically done terrorizing America by that point already. Reading throughout the book, I couldn't help but think, Jacob is such an American. While the others may rebel now and then, especially after their taste of freedom in the last few books, they always default back to following their Ymbryne. Jacob, on the other hand, can't accept that. He wants to be an individual, he wants independence and freedom. And he wants that for others as well. He is such an American, refusing to follow the rules or be told what to do. Our country was founded on rebellion; we're raised on the ideas of liberty and justice, built for independence. Red, white, and blue run through our veins and even if it's a monumentally idiotic idea to act out against authority, we're practically programmed to do so. Yep, he's such an American. Some points of this did get me worried, such as his rocky relationship with Emma (they had been doing so well), overall, I'm just really excited to see where Ransom Riggs takes us next.

Rating: 5/5 Nothing more to be said.