Last year, I had a chance encounter with YA author Ransom Riggs when I was scheduled for an interview Tahereh Mafi, and luckily got to interview them both. I had read, “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children” a few months before then, and I purposely cleared a spot on my reading list for the sequel, “Hollow City,” as soon as I got the book this weekend.
The Miss Peregrine series centers around peculiars, people (often children) with odd physical traits or abilities. To protect them from the world, peculiars are often found under the care of a matriarch, called an ymbrine (such as Miss Peregrine), within the sanctuary of a time loop. The peculiars are in danger, not just from the humans who treat them like circus freaks, but also from darker elements: hollowgasts (hollows) and wights who are hunting them down.