Why I Picked ItIt was time for another audiobook, and since I liked Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children so much, I knew I needed to continue the series. The movie had also been on a few days after I finished the first book, and the ending was nothing like the end of the book. So I thought that maybe they had kind of combined the books to give it an ending in the single movie. I needed to keep going in the series so I could see if that was true (It isn't. The movie is SO DRASTICALLY different than the book). SummaryMiss Peregrine is hurt and can't go back to her human form. Not only that, but the kids are on the run from the Whites and the Hollows. In order to get to safety and to save Mrs. P, the kids are on a mission to find another ymbryne to help them. They travel to different loops, and eventually make their way to London. What I LikedI really enjoyed the gypsy caravan that the peculiars run into. The new characters (gypsies and a few others included). The carnival characters were also pretty cool. What I Didn't Like As much as I loved the new characters, I noticed toward the end that after being introduced to the characters, they were normally referred to by their defining characteristics instead of their names. That bothers me. As bad as I am at names, I think that it is important for the characters to be called by name. It makes them more real, rather than just referring to, for example, one of the carnival characters as "the folding man" instead of by his name (which I now can't remember because he was primarily called "the folding man"). I also felt that in the first book, Bronwyn was a fairly young and naïve character. Then, when it came to the second book, she was suddenly the mother hen to the bunch. Some of the new characters and other plot pieces became very extremely far-fetched, even for this book. I loved the first book, but everything in this book was too perfectly coincidental. For example (small spoiler), when a bomb hits near the kids, EVERYTHING around them is destroyed, but MIRACULOUSLY the kids just happened to have received some special sweaters earlier in the book that ended up saving all of their lives (though, that wouldn't have saved their heads or legs from the shrapnel and debris flying through the air…). There were just things that didn't make sense in this book, and they actually just made me angry. The ending was alright. There was a huge twist toward the end, which made sense. I actually kind of liked it, but then it just kept going and got a little weird. Also, the kids run into a couple new peculiars in the book. One of them, they tell that he can't join them because it's too dangerous, etc, etc. The other one, get this, they are disappointed when she doesn't join them. Even though that would have meant that the new character's little sister would have been left alone. It made no sense. Overall Impression 🌟🌟Overall, I give Hollow City 2/5 stars. I was not a fan of this book. Everything was just too coincidental, or too weird, or just maddening. At first I wasn't sure I'd want to read the third book, but now I'm thinking I need to so I can see if Ransom Riggs redeems himself. However, with my current TBR pile, it makes it hard to keep going with a series I'm not sure I even like anymore.
What do you do when a book in a series disappoints you? Do you keep going in the series, or do you move on to something new?
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