Bronwyn's The Tales Of The Peculiar

: The book opens where the first book ended, with the children fleeing their island via book rowboats. They are being pursued by wights and have to row incredibly hard to reach the mainland. There, they hide in a cave, but are discovered when Jacob and Emma are talking outside. They begin running again and eventually have to stop and hide for the night. Bronwyn reads a story from the Tales of the Peculiar. The next day while running they recognize a landmark from the story the previous night and realize it could be a loop entrance. This makes them realize the importance of the Tales of the Peculiar. While in the loop, Jacob senses a hollow and discovers he’s able to track it. He helps Bronwyn kill it and then they discover a group of peculiar

The gypsies end up being peculiar, and help the kids get to the train station. There, they are once again captured by wights. Hugh rescues them by using his swarm of bees to kill the wights. They catch the train and make it to London, and there try to find Miss Wren, the other ymbryne. They read from the tales and discover where the peculiar pigeons are that can take them to her. They find another raided loop, that has a telekinetic girl and a pair of blind brothers. They flee from more hollows and take cover where 2 small sisters are hiding. A bomb drops and kills the hollows and the group enters another loop containing Miss Wren. A boy at where the ymbryne is and she meets them there and takes them to her hiding spot. While she tries to heal Miss Peregrine, The ymbryne takes Mrs Peregrine to try to heal her and the children begin conversing with the people from the carnival who are at this building

The carnival people tell them they want them to join the fight against the hollows to get the ymbryne's back but the children say no, that they just want Mrs Peregrine back and to go home. The carnival peculiars then show the kids a room full of three peculiars who are lying in beds with vacant stares in a hospital wing. They think that the wights has tortured them, but Millard tells them that the wights and hollows have figured out how to steal children's souls, hence why they can now enter loops. They also tell the kids that the reason the ymbryne's have been kidnapped is because the hollows and wights are trying to use the ymbryne's to become whole again and take over the human world and all loops. The kids make the decision to fight back but Emma tells Jacob she wants him to go home after this is all over while he still has a loop to travel through to get back to his family. He argues but eventually agrees since it's what Emma wants. The ymbryne gathers them all back into her chamber to wait while Miss Peregrine turns back into herself, but it's actually Mrs Peregrine's brother who emerges from the bird. Turns out when they kidnapped Mrs Peregrine back from the wights in the first book it wasn't her at all, but him disguised as