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Hollow City by Ransom Riggs
5.0
Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children series follows a group of peculiar children, children with special abilities, and their caretaker Miss Peregrine, a peculiar herself, as they try to stay out of the jaws of Hollows and Wights, monsters that want to literally consume them. In Miss Peregrines’s Home for Peculiar Children, teenage Jacob follows clues left by his deceased grandfather to an island, where he discovers Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children hidden in it’s own niche in space and time (called a loop) to protect the peculiars from the creatures that want to kill them.
The second book in the series, Hollow City starts exactly where the first book leaves off: the children crossing the water in boats with their injured headmistress, heading away from the island and the monsters pursuing them. On the mainland things don’t get any easier for them. With Hollows and Wights hot on their heels, the children determinedly find and explore other loops in search of someone to help them save their beloved Miss Peregrine, meeting new peculiars (including peculiar animals) along the way.
Hollow City has its own world building and makes it clearly known who’s who, so if you haven’t read Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children you won’t be completely lost. Still, I highly recommend reading the book before this one, as there is some important info gleaned in that one which is not repeated in the newer book (the origin of Hollows and Wights for example). Also, the endings for both books tie into each other quite a bit, so I would recommend reading the first book for that reason alone.
The characters, as in the first book, were fantastically and fascinatingly written in their peculiarity. Emma’s fire-starting, Bronwyn’s super strength, Olive’s ability to float, Millard’s invisibility, Hugh’s command of bees, and Jacob’s ability to sense and see Hollows all came in very handy throughout the adventure. This book was a touch darker than the first one as the children are literally fighting for their survival, so be prepared for them to make some harsh choices and have a few violent scenes.
From beginning to end, Hollow City mesmerized me. I simply couldn’t put it down, I had to find out what happens next (and what happens at the end is a cliffhanger (boo), so I’m still dying to find out what happens next!). I loved that the plot kept me guessing; there was no predictability here for me and I was kept wonderfully on my toes the whole way through. Chocked full of action and adventure, not to mention those semi-creepy vintage photos for which the series is famous, the story unfolding was completely absorbing. Between the pictures and the words, I could easily picture the children running through World War II era London in the middle of an air raid, bombs raining down around them.
Detailed descriptions and delightfully peculiar characters combined with a wholly original, completely unpredictable plot made this an absolute must read for me. I cannot wait for the next one so I can be drawn into this world once more.
*I received a copy of this book to review. You can find this review and others like it at BookAndCoffeeAddict.com, along with recommendations for a fantastic cup of coffee.
The second book in the series, Hollow City starts exactly where the first book leaves off: the children crossing the water in boats with their injured headmistress, heading away from the island and the monsters pursuing them. On the mainland things don’t get any easier for them. With Hollows and Wights hot on their heels, the children determinedly find and explore other loops in search of someone to help them save their beloved Miss Peregrine, meeting new peculiars (including peculiar animals) along the way.
Hollow City has its own world building and makes it clearly known who’s who, so if you haven’t read Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children you won’t be completely lost. Still, I highly recommend reading the book before this one, as there is some important info gleaned in that one which is not repeated in the newer book (the origin of Hollows and Wights for example). Also, the endings for both books tie into each other quite a bit, so I would recommend reading the first book for that reason alone.
The characters, as in the first book, were fantastically and fascinatingly written in their peculiarity. Emma’s fire-starting, Bronwyn’s super strength, Olive’s ability to float, Millard’s invisibility, Hugh’s command of bees, and Jacob’s ability to sense and see Hollows all came in very handy throughout the adventure. This book was a touch darker than the first one as the children are literally fighting for their survival, so be prepared for them to make some harsh choices and have a few violent scenes.
From beginning to end, Hollow City mesmerized me. I simply couldn’t put it down, I had to find out what happens next (and what happens at the end is a cliffhanger (boo), so I’m still dying to find out what happens next!). I loved that the plot kept me guessing; there was no predictability here for me and I was kept wonderfully on my toes the whole way through. Chocked full of action and adventure, not to mention those semi-creepy vintage photos for which the series is famous, the story unfolding was completely absorbing. Between the pictures and the words, I could easily picture the children running through World War II era London in the middle of an air raid, bombs raining down around them.
Detailed descriptions and delightfully peculiar characters combined with a wholly original, completely unpredictable plot made this an absolute must read for me. I cannot wait for the next one so I can be drawn into this world once more.
*I received a copy of this book to review. You can find this review and others like it at BookAndCoffeeAddict.com, along with recommendations for a fantastic cup of coffee.