Ransom Riggs: Ms. Peregrines Peculiar Children 2: Hollow City

The second book begins, where the first one left us. Jacob and his peculiar friends are trying to flee the island which has so long been their safe haven on rowing boats. Several near-death experiences later the group manages to get onto the main land. As Ms. Peregrine is still not able to transform back into her human form, the children try to find out, who may help her - and them. A strange lake and an even stranger lump of rock are the beginning of a quite peculiar scavenger hunt. People have to be rescued and others teach them quite a lesson, wights have to be fled, and World War II is still ongoing...

Ransom Riggs breathes new life into strange old photographies he buys at flea markets and such. The story about Jacob and his friends, each with a special ability, is a kind of super hero story, even if the children are not real super heros (yet). I hope that the third book will be published soon! 10 out of 10 for a great story without weak points (for me).

I am currently reading my second "Lesezirkel"-book, "Warbreaker" by Brandon Sanderson.

[Audiobook] Paul Hoffman: The last four things

Actually, I have no idea what this book is about! I started three times, always listening halfway through, realizing I did not get a bit of the plot, and now I gave up.

I have problems with the narrator who just reads and reads and reads without emotion, I have problems with the plot where a lot seems to happen, but I cannot follow (it is just not interesting for me, I don't care what happens)... I was so happy with the first book and when the second book was published, and so many wrote negative about it, I could not believe it... I am sorry Mr. Hoffman, for me now it seems, they where right :-(

I now started with Oneiros by Markus Heitz.

Neil Gaiman: The Ocean at the End of the Lane

Oh what a wonderful book!

After a funeral the narrator is on his way to his sister. As he is not in a hurry, he drives around a bit, not really recognizing the world he lived in as a boy. When he arrives at a farm at the end of the lane his memory awakens...

... and suddenly he is that small boy again, living in a rather large house with his parents and his sister. He has a bedroom with a little sink (just his size), a little kitten, and all is well. Until one day his kitten is run over by a car. This is when things get haywire. Suddenly someone is dead, the girl at the end of the lane (Lettie Hempstock) is revealed to be more than just a girl, there is a very strange behaving worm, a creepy nanny in the house, and nothing is anymore what it seemed to be...

I really recommend this book! There are very lovable characters (ok, all but one or two), a fantastic story with a (wider) touch of horror and a lot of Neil Gaiman in this book! I award 10 out of 10!

My current book is the second installment of "Ms. Peregrines peculiar children: Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs.