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johnsonm26 's review for:
Hollow City
by Ransom Riggs
After finishing book one, I immediately started book two out of curiosity and by the suggestion of a friend that the books only continue to get better as the series goes on. This book did not disappoint! This book covers about three days with these peculiar children, starting immediately where book one left off.
This book continued to give more insight into the world of Peculiars. However, I want more. Perhaps it is because I have a love affair with Harry Potter and the way that J.K. Rowling literally created a world that I would love to be a part of. And with the peculiars, I don't really know much of anything about them, their world, their history - then again, the brevity of the stories don't necessarily lend time for a reader to gradually be immersed into a world. HP books cover part of summer and an entire year of school at Hogwarts, making it so much easier to organically introduce the reader to the wizarding world. Also, maybe it is because there isn't much of a peculiar world, since most live(d) hidden within loops in a younger human form, hiding from hollows and normals. So I probably shouldn't try to compare the two, but Riggs has created a world within his stories that I would like to know more about and I am hoping book three can give me a little bit more of that.
And now to say something taboo about these books - I know it's the integral part of the stories, but I am not loving the vintage photos... And I even read the "interviews with the author" at the end of both books, where Riggs talks more about the importance and his love of these vintage photos. I just am a big "meh" on them.
This book, like the first, was a quick read that kept me intrigued through all the twists and tribulations of these peculiar children. Can't wait to find out what happens in book three!
This book continued to give more insight into the world of Peculiars. However, I want more. Perhaps it is because I have a love affair with Harry Potter and the way that J.K. Rowling literally created a world that I would love to be a part of. And with the peculiars, I don't really know much of anything about them, their world, their history - then again, the brevity of the stories don't necessarily lend time for a reader to gradually be immersed into a world. HP books cover part of summer and an entire year of school at Hogwarts, making it so much easier to organically introduce the reader to the wizarding world. Also, maybe it is because there isn't much of a peculiar world, since most live(d) hidden within loops in a younger human form, hiding from hollows and normals. So I probably shouldn't try to compare the two, but Riggs has created a world within his stories that I would like to know more about and I am hoping book three can give me a little bit more of that.
And now to say something taboo about these books - I know it's the integral part of the stories, but I am not loving the vintage photos... And I even read the "interviews with the author" at the end of both books, where Riggs talks more about the importance and his love of these vintage photos. I just am a big "meh" on them.
This book, like the first, was a quick read that kept me intrigued through all the twists and tribulations of these peculiar children. Can't wait to find out what happens in book three!