Hollow City
Ransom Riggs
One thing after another
Hollow City is the second novel in Ransom Riggs‘s Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children series. I did not love the first novel, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (my review), but I thought it showed enough promise to continue with the series. I liked this installment even less. I will not continue with the series.
I disliked Hollow City for two main reasons. The first is that it doesn’t feel like a story -- it’s just one damn thing after another. The second is that the events were historical events that have been thoroughly fictionalized in some really excellent novels. The background for the novel is the Blitz, and the transport of London’s children out of the city. I have read two truly excellent series about those events, Connie Willis‘s All Clear and Kimberly Brubaker Bradley‘s The War That Saved My Life. Hollow City suffered by comparison.