Hollow City is the sequel to Ransom Rigg's MissPeregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, a New York Times best-seller that reached the #1 spot on the Children's Chapter Books on the way to selling over 15 million copies. If reader response is any indication, Hollow City doesn't miss a beat.
Rather than detail the plot (which can be found here), I
would rather focus on several elements of the story I found thought-provoking and
meaningful.
FAMILY
“You have a home – one that isn’t ruined – and parents who are alive, and who love you, in some measure...”
“Why are you pushing me away?”
“Because you have a real home and a real family, and if you think any of us would’ve chosen this world over those things – wouldn’t have given up our loops and longevity and peculiar powers long ago for even a taste of what you have – then you really are living in a fantasy world.”
In a culture where families are collapsing at a sobering
rate, this kind of story strikes a chord. Hollow City is not suggesting every
family is automatically good, but it is asking readers to appreciate the family
they have.
