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Peculiar Peril
Peculiar Peril | Jeff VanderMeer
16 posts | 8 read | 2 reading | 47 to read
A Peculiar Peril is a head-spinning epic about three friends on a quest to protect the world from a threat as unknowable as it is terrifying, from the Nebula Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer. Jonathan Lambshead stands to inherit his deceased grandfather's overstuffed mansion--a veritable cabinet of curiosities--once he and two schoolmates catalog its contents. But the three soon discover that the house is filled with far more than just oddities: It holds clues linking to an alt-Earth called Aurora, where the notorious English occultist Aleister Crowley has stormed back to life on a magic-fueled rampage across a surreal, through-the-looking-glass version of Europe replete with talking animals (and vegetables). Swept into encounters with allies more unpredictable than enemies, Jonathan pieces together his destiny as a member of a secret society devoted to keeping our world separate from Aurora. But as the ground shifts and allegiances change with every step, he and his friends sink ever deeper into a deadly pursuit of the profound evil that is also chasing after them.
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Johanna414
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Looking through a stack of books, trying to decide what's coming home with me for the summer, and this dedication made me giggle...

Soubhiville I love it! 3y
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Beneath_the_desk_drawer
Peculiar Peril | Jeff VanderMeer
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A peculiar Peril by Jeff VanderMeer is 656 pages long. Which scared me at first. Longer books haven‘t really agreed well with me recently. But I‘ve put of reading this book for too long! So I‘m really excited to start this book today.

After reading a few book reviews on goodreads this book gives me a mix of Lemony Snicket‘s Series of Unfortunate Events and Ransom Riggs Peculiar Children vibes…and I‘m so excited for that!

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thegirlwiththelibrarybag
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I picked up this book thinking it was just my type of weird... so far so good 😊

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TracyReadsBooks
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Pickpick

As I suspected, having finished this book, I‘m still not entirely sure what I just read. 🤪 BUT, I can tell you it was a wild, fantastical, imaginative, over the top extravaganza of a story—a wildly imaginative tale about a house filled with antiques & 3 special doors that lead who knows where, the boy who inherits it, & the friends, villains, talking animals & vegetables, magicians, & more who shape what happens next. Odd, quirky, & unusual.

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TracyReadsBooks
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I mean, it‘s says it right there on the back of the book! This is definitely one of the oddest books I‘ve read in a long time. Odd and quirky and weird and filled with imaginative writing AND I‘m almost certain when I reach the end, I‘ll close the book and ask myself what I just read. All of which is to say, this book may not be for everyone but so far I‘m enjoying it.

MariaW 😂 4y
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TracyReadsBooks
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“It‘s like a getaway and a safe house got married and had a creepy child.”

I have to admit, I‘d be interested in seeing EXACTLY what this looks like... 🏚

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SassenachTheBookWizard
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Pickpick

I know this isn't a particularly popular book and I do agree it's very weird but I loved it!

reading_rainbow Can‘t wait for this one! 4y
GreenGrl87 Sold! I love weird lol 4y
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SassenachTheBookWizard
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I've been waiting for the long weekend to tackle my BIG books and this is the BIGGEST of them so hopefully I love it.

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Branwen
A Peculiar Peril | Jeff VanderMeer
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Celebrating the start of the holiday weekend in the best way possible-hibachi and a book! 📚💕😋Happy Friday night, litsy family! #bookndinner

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Branwen
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This book is kooky and mysterious and just so much FUN! 😀💕📚 I've only just started it, but I'm loving it so far!

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Nitpickyabouttrains
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Mehso-so

I didn‘t love Vandermeers ya attempt. It felt mocking but also silly. The world was fun but the characters were more like caricatures.

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TracyReadsBooks
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Next up, VanderMeer‘s latest. It‘s YA (a departure for VanderMeer). Maybe his first? Regardless, it‘s the first VanderMeer book I‘ve read and just a few chapters in, I can say it is a wild ride which is sure to delight readers of all ages.

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GrilledCheeseSamurai
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Got some bookmail yesterday and I am dying to get to it but it's still a few books away on my tbr.

VanderMeer is an autobuy for me. I'm a big fan. I'm extra excited to get to this one as I have absolutely no idea what it's about. I've avoided all spoilers and haven't even read the synopsis. All I know is that it may or may not be a YA story. That's it. 🤷‍♂️

Sometimes it's fun going in completely blind.

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jackilynn I need to read more of his work. I have only read Borne but I did really enjoy it. 4y
marshymallow03 What a cool cover! I‘m excited to read it :) 4y
Karkar I picked this one up today!!! 4y
Nute His books always have the coolest cover art! 4y
batsy I want to read this, and I've also avoided reading anything about it! I've only read his Southern Reach trilogy but that was enough to know it's best to just enter into his world without too much information :) 4y
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WanderingBookaneer
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I‘m going to give this one a shot, but I think I‘ll end up bailing.

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Well-ReadNeck
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#TBRTuesday Working down my ARC shelves. Of course, it would help if I‘d stop requesting new ones. 🥴

Carissa-Green-Reads Can‘t stop. Won‘t stop. 😜 5y
RedbagReadbooks How do you request in print arcs? I don‘t read ebooks. 🤷🏻‍♀️ just wondering! Thanks 🙏 5y
Well-ReadNeck @RedbagReadbooks I read mostly e-galleys. I get physical books from Goodreads, LibraryThing, and occasionally bookseller, library and other bookish connections. 5y
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Liberty
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Eeeeeeeeeeee! It‘s Jeff VanderMeer‘s first YA novel! It‘s out July 7 and it is an enormous tome. It‘s over 600 pages long! I am so excited to start reading it. 🦋🐍🌸

tpixie What a beautiful cover! And what a large book!! Esp for YA much less us adults! Good thing Harry Potter got us used to big books!!! 5y
britt_brooke So pretty! 5y
batsy Oooh! 5y
Abailliekaras Love the cover 😍 5y
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