Hollow City by Ransom Riggs

In the sequel to Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, Hollow City, I've honestly been bored. I hate to say it because the first book was so interesting, but now I am struggling to find it as captivating as the original. This book feels drawn out and I can only imagine how the third book will be. At this point, I want to just do what I did with the freakshow season of American Horror Story and stop and read the spoilers about the one storyline I was interested in. I think I will make myself finish this book if not for any other reason than I want to know if Miss Peregrine is saved, but I probably won't even get that information. I rarely ever stop books in the middle and I refuse to do that now.

Though the pace is probably the same in the second book, I feel as if it's not fresh and interesting enough. Emma and Jacob aren't as exciting as they were because now Jacob is stuck in the loops. He will never get back to the twenty-first century, at least it doesn't seem that way right now, and even if he did, he couldn't bring Emma with him. There's also the fact that they were forced off of Cairnholm and are now heading to London without Miss Peregrine in human form. The change in scenery was necessary I suppose, but what is really getting to me is that Riggs is not only making me curious by not letting me in on anything that will happen later, but he's doing too good of a job of it. I have no idea of the direction of the book, I don't know if Miss Peregrine will be saved and the hollows will be stopped and they'll go back to their normal loop life. I also don't know if I'm supposed to expect that the peculiars will find a way to go to the modern world or if I'm supposed to have given up hope on that. So I guess my main issue with this book right now is that I don't know what I'm supposed to be looking forward to in the slightest and it's throwing me off.