A Map of Days by Ransom Riggs

About a month ago I got an email in my inbox from a company that features new titles and books I may be interested in.  As I opened it up and saw this title I got all excited and had to see if my local library carried a copy.  I was in luck and the book was ordered and on its way to the library.  A couple of days later I got the notification that it was in and ready to be picked up.    This is the first book in months I have been able to really get into and complete.  I have tried others and lost interest in them, but it doesn't also help that I have been pregnant since the end of June and have been super tired, working an early morning shift and chasing around a 3 year old as well. But this book changed things and I found myself even staying up late some nights just to see what the next chapter would hold.  I have really enjoyed this series and I hope that if this author releases another book or two that it won't be too far behind this one.

Here is a descripton of the storyline from the goodreads.com website.  "The #1 bestselling series returns with a thrilling new story arc set in America!

Vintage photographs reveal the never-before-seen world of peculiar America with a stunning addition—full-color images.

Having defeated the monstrous threat that nearly destroyed the peculiar world, Jacob Portman is back where his story began, in Florida. Except now Miss Peregrine, Emma, and their peculiar friends are with him, and doing their best to blend in. But carefree days of beach visits and normalling lessons are soon interrupted by a discovery—a subterranean bunker that belonged to Jacob’s grandfather, Abe.

Clues to Abe’s double-life as a peculiar operative start to emerge, secrets long hidden in plain sight. And Jacob begins to learn about the dangerous legacy he has inherited—truths that were part of him long before he walked into Miss Peregrine’s time loop.

Now, the stakes are higher than ever as Jacob and his friends are thrust into the untamed landscape of American peculiardom—a world with few ymbrynes, or rules—that none of them understand. New wonders, and dangers, await in this brilliant next chapter for Miss Peregrine’s peculiar children. Their story is again illustrated throughout by haunting vintage photographs, but with a striking addition for this all-new, multi-era American adventure—full color. "

       I enjoyed the movie adaptation that was made about the first novel in this series, but nothing beats reading the books in this case.  The way this author writes it so vivid it is a movie playing in my head all the time time while reading and my characters don't look the same as the ones that played in the movie.  I would totally recommend this series for anyone who like a bit of peculiarity and suspense.  

I know this book doesn't really follow my goal of reading books that I already own, but sometimes you know you just have to step out of the way go for a new and exciting adventure.