Library of Souls
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| Author | Ransom Riggs |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Young adult literature, horror literature, dark fantasy |
| Publisher | Quirk Books |
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Published in English
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September 22, 2015 |
| Media type | Print, e-book, audiobook |
| Pages | 464 pp. |
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| Preceded by | Hollow City |
Library of Souls is a sequel to 2014 novel Hollow City written by Ransom Riggs and third book in the series of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. It was released on September 22, 2015 by Quirk Books.
After the events of the previous novel's ending, in which Jacob and Emma hide in a phone booth with Addison, Jacob discovers he has the ability to control hollowgasts as well as see them, Jacob then makes the hollow he's currently controlling back off, making it possible for the three to escape from the phone booth they're trapped in. They rest and prepare for the journey to rescue their friends and the kidnapped ymbrynes. The group manages to narrow down where their friends may have been taken and, with the help of a boatsman named Sharon, they cross over a polluted river by the name of Fever Ditch to a dilapidated village corrupted with drugs and run by the wights by the name of Devil's Acre.
There Addison is captured, and Jacob and Emma are shocked to find many peculiar people who have become trapped there and, in some cases, have put themselves up for viewing and sale. The worst of these peculiars have also become addicted to a specific drug known as ambrosia, which is taken by being poured into the eyes and is supposed to imbue the taker with great physical strength. This has led to frequent fights and matches between peculiars and hollows, where the peculiars take the ambrosia to further augment their abilities. While trying to navigate their way around without being spotted, they are invited into a man's house to take cover. The man, Bentham, is revealed to be the one who caused the explosion in the Siberian tundra that created hollows and essentially wights (as told in the first book), and he is also Miss Peregrine's brother.
To prove that he truly wants to help, he unveils secret information about the wights and helps Jacob and Emma get into the wights' building using a hollow Jacob rescued from a cage in the fighting ring. The pair sneak into the building and manage to evade capture, but they also stumble upon a hospital complex where many peculiars are having their peculiar souls drained, including Melina and the echolocators. The other peculiar children, however, are nowhere to be found.
Emma and Jacob proceed to stop the draining operations, and successfully find their friends in a basement cell and free them, save for Fiona who had supposedly died when the hollows and wights invaded the loop where the peculiar menagerie were living. With no time to mourn, the group come across the room where all the ymbrynes are being kept, but Caul already knows that Jacob and Emma are here. He then threatens to release a whole horde of hollows into the room with them and the ymbrynes unless Jacob is willing to use his ability to help him find the soul jars hidden in the legendary Library of Souls - a place where it was rumored peculiars kept their souls after their death for others to borrow later, but was later cut off from the rest of peculiardom after a horrible war that was also responsible for scattering peculiars across the world.
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