Book Review Hollow City by Ransom Riggs

Title: Hollow City

Author: Ransom Riggs

Publisher: Quirk Books

Release Date: January 14th 2014

ISBN: 1594746125

Rating: 4.5/5

Cover Impressions: I love, love, love the photography.

I received a copy of Hollow City from Quirk Books in exchange for an honest review so here goes:

Synopsis: Having escaped Miss Peregrine's island by the skin of their teeth, Jacob and his new friends must journey to London, the peculiar capital of the world. Along the way, they encounter new allies, a menagerie of peculiar animals, and other unexpected surprises.

Review: It was exciting to see the children travel to London, as the first book was set in a very closed environment, it was interesting to see how thy interacted with the outside world. The world building was great with more loops and other interesting thinks such as peculiar animals.

I love learning about the characters and I feel that Riggs’ characterization is so good. It was good to explore the personalities of Jacob, Emma, Olive and so many others further and connect with them more. The loop really contributed to this, having to live the same day over and over again makes it seem like the children are actually adults trapped in children’s bodies.

My only problem with Hollow City wasn't really a problem, just something I don’t really understand and therefore can’t particularly endorse, I love both Emma and Jacob exclusively, but I still feel that their relationship is completely unneces
sary to the series and doesn't really add anything to it either.

The vintage photographs in Hollow City are just as bizarre and outlandish as the ones in the first book, taken from private collections; they each raise questions to the reader about the lives of those in them. I admired Riggs’ ability to craft a story out of them; they were dark and sometimes nightmarish, but managed to add a whole other dimension to the story which I loved.

Hollow City is incredibly fast-paced with an interesting story that fans of Miss Peregine’s Home for Peculiar Children will absolutely love. With plenty of unexpected twists, Hollow City is quite frankly one of the best sequels I've read to date and it definitely surpasses its predecessor which is unusual to say the least. Overall, I give it four and a half out of five stars and I can’t wait to read the final book in the trilogy when it comes finally comes out, I can’t wait.