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rachelmcg2004 's review for:
The Conference of the Birds
by Ransom Riggs
UPDATE:
TL;DR:
Looking back on my experience with this book, I realized that it can be summed up in one picture:
Help me.
Previous review:
1. Noor is amazing. Seriously. Like, her character needs to be fully explored in like her own series. Why is she a chosen one? How did she meet Lilly? Etc.
2. LILLYYYY! Dang these new characters are knocking it out of the park, but LILLY MOST OF ALL! I was so sad when
3.
Oh Hugh! Oh Hugh oh Hugh oh Hugh YOU WERE RIGHT and we were so wrong, and don’t you worry, boo, she’s right here now. She’s not going anywhere.
She’s not saying anything either.
*lil tear in the corner of my eye* *jk I’m bawling*
Riggs...if you break my heart any more in this next book I swear-
4. Noor/Jacob is not a thing (romantically...I actually love their friendship, but a romance between the two of them? Especially just after his breakup with Emma? ...no. *winces* *cringes*
So yeah, when are these two gonna break up? Will it be when Jacob realizes he is literally incapable of being a boyfriend (which he probably never will)?
Jacob is so...possessive too. Like he knew this girl like for only a few days/weeks and now he will go to the ends of the earth and back for her, and all of her quests are somehow “his” as well now, and gosh if it doesn’t remind me of something else...
Something that ended when Jacob decided to be a good boyfriend is not to be there for your girlfriend when she’s going through what he calls “some stuff.”
And oh, now Emma and Jacob's relationship is supposed to be considered “pure and chaste?”
*you know that guy in that vine who just has that confused expression? Well that’s me now*
Do they live in some alternate reality where making out literally every chance you get is what a “pure and chaste” relationship looks like? Because boy I’m scared to see what a truly passionate and fiery relationship is like in this universe.
But this is what really got me:
Noor: is her usual awesome self
Jacob: OMIGOSH SHE IS SO STRIKINGLY BEAUTIFUL (unlike poor Emma who is just averagely beautiful) AND DANG DO I FEEL ATTRACTED (unlike the way I felt about Emma which was totally not the same.)
Yeah. Sure Jacob. You said the same thing about Emma when she came, you just substituted other girls for the ones who didn’t “live up” to your unrealistic expectations.
Sigh. I don’t hate Jacob, but his constant whinyness, his distrust of his friends - who have proven themselves to him COUNTLESS times - and his almost laughable-if-it-wasn’t-so-sad inability to truly understand how to be in a relationship makes him being the narrator a bit grating.
And now that I’ve complained far too much, let me just say that I adore Hugh and Horace and Enoch and Miss Peregrine and Lilly and Olive and Claire and EMMA and Noor. They are amazing and Mr. Riggs, you put them through far too much. Seriously, I’m calling Character Protective Services on you if you keep putting my babies through such hell.
(Upper, L to R: Bronwyn, Claire, Olive, Jacob, and Emma. Lower, L to R: Miss Peregrine, Howard, Millard, Fiona, Enoch, and Hugh. Lower lower: Noor. My babies.
Except for Jacob.)
TL;DR: Despite many flaws, I still liked this book. Why? Because despite the fact that he puts them through so much, Mr. Riggs is a truly accomplished writer who has done a fantastic job creating characters I adore and universes that are engaging and engrossing. I look forward to book 6 with great anticipation and more than a little unease.
TL;DR:
Looking back on my experience with this book, I realized that it can be summed up in one picture:
Help me.
Previous review:
1. Noor is amazing. Seriously. Like, her character needs to be fully explored in like her own series. Why is she a chosen one? How did she meet Lilly? Etc.
2. LILLYYYY! Dang these new characters are knocking it out of the park, but LILLY MOST OF ALL! I was so sad when
Spoiler
SHE NEVER SHOWED BACK UP AGAIN AFTER THEIR WEIRD ENCOUNTER WITH FRANKIE! Like, what the heck, Mr. Riggs, Lilly was seriously the most amazing character in the book and she’s gone. SMH. Big time.3.
Spoiler
FIONA’S ALIVE FIONA’S ALIVE FIONA’S ALIVE?!?!?! *screams into the void*Oh Hugh! Oh Hugh oh Hugh oh Hugh YOU WERE RIGHT and we were so wrong, and don’t you worry, boo, she’s right here now. She’s not going anywhere.
She’s not saying anything either.
*lil tear in the corner of my eye* *jk I’m bawling*
Riggs...if you break my heart any more in this next book I swear-
4. Noor/Jacob is not a thing (romantically...I actually love their friendship, but a romance between the two of them? Especially just after his breakup with Emma? ...no. *winces* *cringes*
So yeah, when are these two gonna break up? Will it be when Jacob realizes he is literally incapable of being a boyfriend (which he probably never will)?
Jacob is so...possessive too. Like he knew this girl like for only a few days/weeks and now he will go to the ends of the earth and back for her, and all of her quests are somehow “his” as well now, and gosh if it doesn’t remind me of something else...
Something that ended when Jacob decided to be a good boyfriend is not to be there for your girlfriend when she’s going through what he calls “some stuff.”
And oh, now Emma and Jacob's relationship is supposed to be considered “pure and chaste?”
*you know that guy in that vine who just has that confused expression? Well that’s me now*
Do they live in some alternate reality where making out literally every chance you get is what a “pure and chaste” relationship looks like? Because boy I’m scared to see what a truly passionate and fiery relationship is like in this universe.
But this is what really got me:
Noor: is her usual awesome self
Jacob: OMIGOSH SHE IS SO STRIKINGLY BEAUTIFUL (unlike poor Emma who is just averagely beautiful) AND DANG DO I FEEL ATTRACTED (unlike the way I felt about Emma which was totally not the same.)
Yeah. Sure Jacob. You said the same thing about Emma when she came, you just substituted other girls for the ones who didn’t “live up” to your unrealistic expectations.
Sigh. I don’t hate Jacob, but his constant whinyness, his distrust of his friends - who have proven themselves to him COUNTLESS times - and his almost laughable-if-it-wasn’t-so-sad inability to truly understand how to be in a relationship makes him being the narrator a bit grating.
And now that I’ve complained far too much, let me just say that I adore Hugh and Horace and Enoch and Miss Peregrine and Lilly and Olive and Claire and EMMA and Noor. They are amazing and Mr. Riggs, you put them through far too much. Seriously, I’m calling Character Protective Services on you if you keep putting my babies through such hell.
(Upper, L to R: Bronwyn, Claire, Olive, Jacob, and Emma. Lower, L to R: Miss Peregrine, Howard, Millard, Fiona, Enoch, and Hugh. Lower lower: Noor. My babies.
Except for Jacob.)
TL;DR: Despite many flaws, I still liked this book. Why? Because despite the fact that he puts them through so much, Mr. Riggs is a truly accomplished writer who has done a fantastic job creating characters I adore and universes that are engaging and engrossing. I look forward to book 6 with great anticipation and more than a little unease.