Hollow City by Ransom Riggs - ADVISABLE

 

Hollow City (Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children, #2) by Ransom Riggs, 428 pages. Quirk Books, 2014.  $11.  

Content: Language: PG-13 (24 swears); Mature Content: PG; Violence: PG-13.  

BUYING ADVISORY: MS, HS – ADVISABLE  

AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE  

Jacob and his new found friends from Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children are on a mission to recapture Miss Peregrine.  Peregrine is in the form of a bird and has been taken by the Whites, and even if Jacob and his friends can find Miss Peregrine, they would still have to figure out how to transform her back into her human form.  The odd group starts a quest to look for their beloved headmistress and hopefully preserve their anonymity from the normal world and the evil White monsters.  

I loved the first book in the series because it is creative and unlike anything I’ve ever read, and this book has a similar feel.  Jacob is a great protagonist and I enjoyed all the peculiar children and their stories.  It would be super complicated to try and read these out of order, so realize it’s a bit of an investment and you would need to have the whole series.  The content includes violent threats of torture and dead horses.  

Reviewer, C. Peterson