Hollow City

Riggs, Ransom. Hollow City. Book 2 of the Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children series. 2015. 416p. ISBN 9781594747359. Available as an eBook on Overdrive.

Barely escaping with their lives from Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children on the island of Cairnholm at the end of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, Jacob and the orphans are now being chased by Wights and their servants the Hollows. Dressed as soldiers, the Wights hunt the children throughout 1940s Wales and England, trying to capture them for their own nefarious purposes.

Emma and Jacob had rescued Ms. Peregrine, but she is unable to transform out of her bird shape back into her human form due to being poisoned by the Wights. They therefore endeavor to find another loop, since only one of Ms. Peregrine’s sisters can help her regain her human form.

Chased through the countryside, the peculiars are rescued by a group of Gypsies, and manage to reach London at the height of the Blitz. But with time running out to save Ms. Peregrine, Emma, Jacob, Enoch, Horace, Millard, Bronwyn, Olive, and Hugh will have to confront the worse the Wights have to offer while surviving the city’s destruction.

With many enemies, but also unexpected allies, the peculiar children are in the race of their lives!

The story concludes in The Library of Souls.