The desolations of Devil's Acre

Ransom Riggs

Book - 2021

"The last thing Jacob Portman saw before the world went dark was a terrible, familiar face. Suddenly, he and Noor are back in his grandfather's house. Jacob doesn't know how they escaped from V's loop, but he does know one thing for certain: Caul has returned. Risen from the Library of Souls, Caul and his apocalyptic agenda seem unstoppable. Only one hope remains--deliver Noor to the meeting place of the seven prophesied ones, if they can decipher its secret location"--

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Genres
Young adult fiction
Paranormal fiction
Fantasy fiction
Novels
Published
New York : Dutton Books [2021]
Language
English
Main Author
Ransom Riggs (author)
Item Description
Sequel to: The conference of the birds.
Physical Description
503 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
ISBN
9780735231535
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For a long time there is only darkness and the sound of distant thunder and the hazy sensation of falling. Beyond that I have no self, no name. No memory. I am aware, dimly, that I used to have these things, but now they are gone and I am nearly nothing. A single photon of failing light circling a hungry void. It won't be long now. I've lost my soul, I'm afraid, but I can't remember how. All I can recall are slow, churning cracks of thunder, and within them the syllables of my name, whatever it used to be, drawn out until unrecognizable. That and the dark are all there is, for a long time, until another sound joins the thunder: wind. Then rain, too. There is wind, and thunder, and rain, and falling. Something is coming into being, one sensation at a time. I am rising from the trench, escaping the void. My single photon becomes a flashing cluster. I feel something rough against my face. I hear the creaking of ropes. The flap of something caught in the wind. Perhaps I am on a boat. Trapped in the lightless belly of some storm-tossed ship. One eye blinks open. Forms thrash dimly above me. A row of swinging pendulums. Overwound clocks all out of sync, groaning, gears about to break. I blink and the pendulums become bodies dropped from a gallows, kicking and twisting. I find I can turn my head. Blurred shapes begin to resolve. Rough green fabric against my face. Above me, the tick-tocking bodies have become a row of storm-blown plants swinging from the rafters in creaky wicker baskets. Behind them, a wall of insect screens shudders and flaps. I am lying on a porch. On the rough green floor of a porch. I know this porch I know this floor Farther away, a rain-whipped lawn terminates at a dark wall of genuflecting palms. I know that lawn I know those palms How long have I been here? How many years? time is playing tricks again I try to move my body, but can only rotate my head. My eyes flick to a card table and two folding chairs. I'm suddenly certain that, if I could persuade my body to rise, I would find a pair of reading glasses on the table. A half-finished game of Monopoly. A mug of steaming, still-hot coffee. Someone has just been here. Words have just been spoken. They hang in the air still, returning to me in echoes. Excerpted from The Desolations of Devil's Acre by Ransom Riggs All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.