Title: Hollow City
Series: Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children
Author: Ransom Riggs
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
Publisher: Quirks Books
Release Date: 2014
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 399

WrensReads Review:

I truly do love the idea of these books. A bunch of kids that have powers that are called peculiar children. They stay in time-loops in order not to draw attention to themselves and to protect themselves from wights and their pet hollows.

The kids have a caretaker, called a ymbryne (she maintains the time loop and transforms into a bird sometimes) is taken from them by the wights, but thankfully they steal her back.

So now that they have Miss Peregrine, their ymbryne, back, they wait for her to turn back into a person. And she doesn’t. They learn she was poisoned because it is easier to transport them and manage them in bird form. And they only have a few days before she is stuck as a bird forever.

They have to do this and not get killed by hollows or wights or whatever else is out there.

Like how scary for a group of young kids is that?

There are old time-like pictures through out the book that give you an idea of what the kids are looking at as well. Which is a cool idea to do with strange pictures taken forever ago.

The writing is good but sometimes I find myself reading over words and not comprehending what I just read. It’s taken me a week with this book when it should have been a day and a half. It’s a good book but I think the writing just doesn’t draw in my attention.

I will read the last book as well! I like them a lot and the story and the idea. I just didn’t mesh well with the writing I guess.

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Title: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
Series: Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children
Author: Ransom Riggs
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
Publisher: Quirk Books
Release Date: 2011
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 352

WrensReads Review:

When I first bought this book, I figured it was going to be a teen horror story type of book because of all the creepy-old-looking photos on the cover(s).

That wasn’t this book at all.

A grandfather and grandson are super close. The grandfather tells very far-fetched tales and tells the grandson that they are real. Eventually, as all grandkids do, Jacob realizes the exaggerated stories he was being told were not true.

This story starts out with a Halloween-type of fill. Scary things happen with someone and someone else comes off as crazy to those around them.

The last words of a victim are cryptic and… well, weird.

The second person (Jacob) sees something scary in the woods. No one, especially his family, believes a word he says and starts to medicate him and send him to therapy.

Eventually Jacob and his father travel to an island to get answers.

Jacob gets more than he bargains for.

The start of this story is really mysterious and keeps you on your toes. It starts a little slow but not slow enough to make you want to put the book down.

Something super unique about this book was the old-timey pictures weaved into the story. They are actually pictures that were taken, according to the author, and he took those photos and made a story around them. I think that is fascinating and talent. I am not sure I could have done what he did.

The ending, was ehhhhhh, it was okay. It ended a little weird for me but it isn’t going to stop me from reading the next book.

I think it is worth the read.

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