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Hollow City by Ransom Riggs

6 reviews

yrlaevelyn's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Kidnapping, Violence, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

Moderate: Animal cruelty, War, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Antisemitism, Body horror, Child abuse, Gun violence, Grief, and Fire/Fire injury

danni_chambers67's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

Minor: Child abuse

cranedphoenix's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.5

So while this book was much faster paced than the first the fact that they kept saying 

she had 3 days when they already established she had two

was annoying (so minus .5 points)
I don't really like most of the characters still so while it is getting interesting I still kinda don't fully like it
I don't own the third and doubt I'll buy it myself but if someone offers me a chance to read it or I find it at a library I might

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Child death, and War

Minor: Ableism, Child abuse, and Gun violence

alisazhup's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I'm not going to do a review for this one. All I can say is: I SAW THAT ENDING COMING! Did anyone else? I guessed it maybe halfway through the book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Kidnapping, Murder, and Stalking

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, and Torture

Minor: Cannibalism, Drug use, Gun violence, and Panic attacks/disorders

aliseanna's review against another edition

adventurous dark slow-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.5

As I absolutely loved the first book in this series, this came as a surprise. It was so boring? And when it wasn’t that, it was so frustrating? I was *this* close to trying to climb into the book and slapping the characters to get some sense into them. The writing was great, but the plot? Where was it? I mean... sure... stuff happened, but it felt like they were going in circles, the stakes were impossible to win and yet everything was handed to them on a silver platter??? What confuses me the most is that immediately after finishing Hollow City I was already reaching for Library of Souls. Why? What is this sorcery?? Who have I become??

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child abuse, Death, Gun violence, Violence, and Animal death

brynn_books's review against another edition

3.5

I really enjoyed this book. I find the concept of these books so cool and interesting. The photographs are weirdly disturbing but they fit the story really well.

I’m pretty sure I liked the first book more but this is still a solid read and In excited to continued the series.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Violence, and Death

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Child death

Minor: Child abuse, Gun violence, and Ableism