A Hole in My Heart: Hollow City (★★★★★)

Disclaimer: I won an ARC of Hollow City as part of Goodreads First Reads giveaway back in January. This is the full version of the review that I posted on my blog and Goodreads.

Jacob and the Peculiar Children we've grown to know and love are back. Their adventure opens immediately after the close of the first novel, and as they set out to save Miss Peregrine, new danger and excitement awaits them. Jacob struggles with his newfound abilities, and the pressure of leaving his family behind, and his romance with Emma.

Hollow City did not disappoint. In fact, I liked it MORE than the first book in the series. We get to know a lot more about the Peculiardom as well as the individual characters (-SPOILER -however fans of Claire and my personal favorite Fiona may be disappointed as they are missing from the majority of the novel).

Ransom Riggs is a master of detail and atmosphere - every sentence is perfectly crafted to bring the book to life, with a perfect blend of action, humor, horror, and even romance so that every reader truly has something to gain from opening this book. I DEVOURED the book faster than a starving hollow would devour a child (ha!), even when I was forced to put it down (damn you, college!) my heart longed to be back in the story.

Dear Mr. Riggs: Please make the Tales of the Peculiar into a book, like Rowling did with The Tales of Beedle the Bard!

I absolutely cannot wait for the third installment, and hopefully Ransom Riggs will get a movie deal out of these books because the would play out brilliantly on-screen.

Why are you still reading this? Go - buy book now, do the reading thing!