Having escaped Miss Peregrine’s island by the skin of their teeth, Jacob and his new friends must journey to London, the peculiar capital of the world (Goodreads).
For a book about children with superpowers, the second installment of this series is rather underwhelming. It is rather exciting and well paced, making for an easy and fun read, but the entire book feels an awful lot like one long midsection in an altogether longer book. I suppose this could be the case for many a second novel in a trilogy, but overall in this particular one, the action is repetitive, and while it is not a slog to get through all of the scenes, well written and engaging as they are, the plot does not really build up to anything until the last two chapters, where the book ends with a very good twist and intriguing conclusion. Again, the pictures are very neat and the characters are all likable enough, but this sequel feels more like a stretched out bridge between two better (though I obviously have yet to read the third) bookends of a series. 7.4/10
