Hollow City By Ransom Rigg Summary

“‘They’re searching the coastline, not the sea,’ said Enoch” (Riggs 33). Bronwyn then answered Enoch by asking him what he was searching for. “The answer was obvious and frightening and no one wanted to say it aloud. They were searching for us” (Riggs 33). This quote from Hollow City, by Ransom Riggs sums up the book exceptionally. Within the book, the children are running from wights and hollows. The book starts with them rowing away from their island, and as they hit the mainland they find zeppelins and submarines looking for them. They then take off into the woods and encounter gypsies who take them to a train station. They were about to get on, but some wights captured them. They escape these wights thanks to Hugh and his bees, and they catch up to the train again using the wight’s jeep.

Using these kids they find Miss Wren, the only person to save Miss Peregrine from here bird-like state. As Miss Wren heals Miss Peregrine it turns out the bird isn't Miss Peregrine, but her evil brother. Miss Peregrine's brother takes the children and Miss Wren captive, and only Emma and Jacob escape before all the kids are put on a train, in present day, and shipped off. Emma and Jacob were saved by a peculiar talking dog they met earlier in the book. As the train disappears a hollow appears and attempts to kill Jacob, Emma, and the dog. The hollow picks Jacob up and just before the hollow is about to eat him Jacob tells it to stop, and it listens. The hollow became Jacob’s to command, and that's how book two ends. Throughout the book, Jacob searches more in depth about his peculiarity and group identity, Jacob also searches for love with Emma, and Millard searches a for identity in love and his peculiar