Hollow City by Ransom Riggs

Hollow City by Ransom Riggs is still moving at a slower pace than I would like, but I'm not abandoning it just yet. The peculiar children stayed a night with a group of gypsies and were then taken to a train station to go to London. Unfortunately though, wights caught up to them at the station and forced them off the train and brought the kids to their base camp of sorts. I'm hoping that now that the kids have run into some trouble that the story will pick up. However, I can't be sure that anything big will happen, seeing as the story basically could have been finished in the last book.

Despite my issues with this book, I do like that the children have become a family. Because they've been together for a very long time, it would seem like they wouldn't accept new people into their fold, but Jacob has proved that very wrong. They embraced him from the beginning because they all loved Abe, Jacob's grandfather, and it seems like Jacob has taken his place and then some. Not only have the younger children accepted Jacob, but even Enoch who initially disliked both Jacob and Abe, seems to have accepted him as part of the family. Finally, I love not only seeing the group bond like a family, but Emma and Jacob obviously mean a lot to each other and are becoming more dependent which is cute and refreshing amidst all of the drama in their lives.