Entry #1: Summer Reading Project 2014

The story I'm  reading is called Hollow City. The second book in the series of Ransom Riggs' novels. It was a very interesting story. There are two main characters in my story. A young "peculiar" boy named  Jacob Portman and a young "peculiar" girl named Emma Bloom. The setting varies in this story. Mainly because the peculiar children go through time loops which puts them through many different periods in time. Ether in the far past or present time now. Many conflicts arise in this story that the peculiars (children) need to worry about, but there is one big one in general. Their head leader Miss Peregrine has been changed into a bird, and time is running out before she stays this way forever. The children have to overcome many obstacles such as not being found out about their peculiar abilities by the "normal" humans, being caught by viscous beasts that are called (Hollows or Hallowgasts), and moving fast enough so that time does not run out! My predictions for this story is that the children will overcome all of these obstacles to get their leader back before its too late. What mainly makes me think this is how smart the kids are and how much they have overcome already. I have a lot of questions for the author of how he came up with this topic. Have you ever gotten creeped out from reading your own story? This story is so "peculiar", which makes it very hard to relate it to other works. One series that it does remind me of a lot is The Series Of Unfortunate Events, by the author of  Daniel Handler with the pen name of Lemony Snicket.  Hollow City is A great read and I would suggest it to many readers if you like Peculiar Stories.

The front cover of Hollow City