Hollow City by Ransom RiggsMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Obtained this free copy from Definitely Books.
First of all, I haven't read the first book, i.e. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children before I started with this book. But the photos in the first few pages of the book introduced me with the characters involved in the prequel as well as in this installment. I often flipped to the pages to remind myself on the unfamiliar character names and their peculiar abilities. Sorry to say that I didn't know the name of the main protagonist (who is also the narrator of the story) until I read about 20 pages.
The story begins with a group of peculiar children escaped from the island which their loop (the home for the peculiar children which is located in another dimension) was invaded by the wights. They traveled on boats, foot, Gypsies horses and trains to London wanting to save their ymbryne which turned into a bird form and its soul was trapped in it.
During the development of the story, I can see that Jacob (the narrator and the hero of the story) realized his ability and started to grow it until something he never expected, especially at the end of the book.
His relationship with Emma (the girl who can create fire with her hands) has a little bit of romance but something is also stopping them to proceed further. In the later part of the story, Emma and Jacob had a heart-breaking discussion on that.
Overall, the story is full of excitement with very special supporting characters in the story as well as the horror that is brought by the hollows and wights (which are the antagonists).
This book should be recommended to ALL readers because of the richness in the plot and of course, the special features in the book, i.e. the peculiar photos. The author did a good job in creating stories out of the photos he collected all these years from the flea markets.
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