Hollow City (novel)
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| Author | Ransom Riggs |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Young adult literature, horror literature, dark fantasy |
| Publisher | Quirk Books |
Published in English | January 14, 2014 |
| Media type | Print, e-book, audiobook |
| Pages | 396 pp. |
| ISBN | 978-1-59474-612-3 |
| Preceded by | Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children |
| Followed by | Library of Souls |
Hollow City is a sequel to 2011 novel Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children written by Ransom Riggs. It was released on January 14, 2014 by Quirk Books.[1] The novel is set right after the first, and sees Jacob and his friends fleeing from Miss Peregrine's to the "peculiar capital of the world", London.[2]
Plot
After fleeing in a boat from the hollows, the children are caught up in a bad storm and need to find land. They land on a beach only to find that the wights have followed them, so they flee into the forests of the mainland. With nowhere to run, they wander aimlessly, until a band of traveling gypsies comes and helps them to the town and in many other ways. They discover a loop with the help of their book The Tales Of the Peculiar and escape into a loop full of peculiar animals. After learning that Miss Wren, the animal's ymbryne (a female syndrigast who can manipulate time and can take the form of a bird), had flown to England to help her sister ymbrynes, they leave in search of her.
Along the road they become stowaways on a passing cart, becoming friends with a traveling band of Gypsies who help them elude the searching wights until they are all captured trying to board the train to London. They are held by the wights in a small shed until one of the children, Hugh (who can control a hive of bees) rescues the group from certain death. They then continue on their journey and meet the train to rescue Miss Peregrine from the lost trunk.
In the city, they see horrible things left by the bombings as they search for Miss Wren's peculiar pigeons. They manage to make it to Saint Paul's Cathedral where they follow her pigeons into an underground crypt and find two peculiar children named Joel and Peter who are echolocators and seem to share one mind. They lead them to the loop and only Emma, Jacob, and Horace enter following the flutter of pigeons wings up to the attic where they meet Melina Manon, a peculiar gifted with Telekinesis, who distrusts them but begs to travel with them bringing the pigeon that they believe will lead them to Miss Wren. They finally reach a time loop under the pigeon's guidance that leads them to Miss Wren, who is hiding in a building coated in thick ice to prevent wights from entering. She proceeds to help Miss Peregrine (in bird form) retain her human form once again, which she estimates will take time. Meanwhile, Jacob and the others discover that the wights are extracting peculiar souls and feeding them to hollowgasts to allow them to attain the ability to pass through loops.
Miss Wren is finally able to allow Miss Peregrine to change form, but everyone is shocked to find out that it is not Miss Peregrine at all, but her brother Caul, a wight. He reveals that it was himself and not Miss Peregrine that the children rescued from the submarine and that he has been following them to gain access to Miss Wren's menagerie and find Miss Wren herself. He and his wights kidnap every peculiar in the loop. The book ends with Jacob finding himself in a phone booth in the present, calling his father to reassure him that he is alive, and discovering he has yet another hidden talent- the ability to speak to and control hollowgasts.
References
- ↑ Riggs, Ransom (7 February 2013). "Hi! I'm still alive . . .". Archived from the original on 16 February 2013.
- ↑ Lee, Stephan (May 29, 2013). "See the title and an excerpt from the sequel to 'Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children' -- EXCLUSIVE". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved June 4, 2013.