A PECULIAR PERIL is a basically The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe done in the style of Alice In Wonderland, and thanks to Jeff Vandermeer's feverish imagination and gift with language the result is an absolute triumph. It's nominally a Young Adult story though it can get quite macabre and gruesome in /5(). A Peculiar Peril is the first book in VanderMeer’s new young adult duology. With his mother missing and his grandfather dead, Jonathan Lambshead inherits his grandfather’s mansion. He is tasked with cataloging its contents, so he enlists the help of his friends, Rack and Danny/5. · A PECULIAR PERIL. By Jeff VanderMeer. Picture a foot-long death machine built to crush everything in its path — powered by pulped earthworms, Author: Laird Hunt.
A Peculiar Peril is, like all of Jeff VanderMeer's books, very peculiar indeed. Defying genre expectations, it is at once epic fantasy, contemporary fantasy, historical fantasy, and portal world fantasy. It is a young adult novel with POV chapters featuring not just teens but inexplicable magical. A Peculiar Peril has a peculiar antagonist in an alt-universe reimagining of one of Britain's most famed occultists. VanderMeer also has a message for his fans who might have reservations about picking up a YA novel. In A Peculiar Peril the Lambshead mansion becomes both the setting and inciting. A Peculiar Peril | Jeff VanderMeer. By Stephen Barkley on Decem in Book Reviews, Fantasy 0. It begins simply enough. A boy named Jonathan receives an inheritance from his mysterious grandfather: a run-down old mansion. Then the weirdness begins—and continues for over pages.
A PECULIAR PERIL. By Jeff VanderMeer. Picture a foot-long death machine built to crush everything in its path — powered by pulped earthworms, defended by demi-mages and captained by the. 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. 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.
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