The #1 New York Times best-selling series.Bonus features: • Sneak preview of the third Peculiar Children novel • Exclusive Q&A with Ransom Riggs • Never-before-seen peculiar photographyLike its predecessor, this second novel in the Peculiar Children series blends thrilling fantasy with vintage photography to create a one-of-a-kind reading experience.September 3, 1940. Ten peculiar children … one-of-a-kind reading experience.
September 3, 1940. Ten peculiar children flee an army of deadly monsters. And only one person can help them—but she’s trapped in the body of a bird. The extraordinary journey that began in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children continues as Jacob Portman and his newfound friends journey to London, the peculiar capital of the world. There, they hope to find a cure for their beloved headmistress, Miss Peregrine. But in this war-torn city, hideous surprises lurk around every corner. And before Jacob can deliver the peculiar children to safety, he must make an important decision about his love for Emma Bloom.
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It was so boring and hard to follow. I quit reading it about 1/3 of the way in. It couldn’t hold my interest.
Wow! Just Wow!
The Hollow City and its predecessor, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, are both reminders of that fact that folks who are different from the “norm” that we recognize are nonetheless worthy of respect in their own right. Besides that, they’re good reads if you like fantasy with a Gaiman-ish twist.
A successful follow up to the original Miss Peregrine novel. When I say successful, I mean it, not just because it has sold well, but more importantly, it is a GREAT sequel. The story does not lose one iota of what made the original book so compelling. If anything, the sequel only adds to it. Characters are explored more deeply, the world expands as the plot unfolds even further, and there are more than a few twists to make the hero’s journey a little more complicated. You are doing yourself a disservice if you stop reading this series after the first novel, and an even greater disservice if you allow even an ounce of your perception of this series to be skewed by that poor excuse of a movie. Terrible, just terrible.
I feel like it took me a bit longer to get through, or even into, this volume of the series than the first. I’m not sure if the story wasn’t grabbing me enough, or it was just that I had so much going on in my personal life at the time. Probably the latter because I did thoroughly enjoy the story once I got it read. There were some very emotional points for me between Jacob and Emma and I liked that aspect within this type of story. I also liked that it didn’t overshadow the story at all and turn it into a romance or something. It did feel a bit as if the entire journey was worthless and that makes it a bigger pull to get the next book sooner rather than later and find out what they’re going to do about everything. I’m still really intrigued by the photographs used to tell the story and the entire premise of writing such a complex world and story around old photos that you’ve come across and studied. Well done, Mr. Riggs.
Great book – Warning do not read unless you have the 3rd book close by. If you have to wait to get the last book you will be mad at yourself – there is a “nice” cliff hanger. That makes it hard to put this series down before the last page.
I really enjoyed this book. I think it is even better than the first one. The characters are much more complete and the interactions between them are wonderful!