“Hollow City: The Second Novel of Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children” is, as the title suggests, Ransom Riggs’ follow-up to “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children.” That book was surprisingly weird, scary and delightful.

I didn’t enjoy “Hollow City” nearly as much.

Riggs uses found photos as illustrations, and in “Hollow City” they seemed to drive rather than enhance the plot. Beyond that, the dialogue seemed really stilted. I’ll read the final book in the trilogy regardless, because I like to know how things end, but I’m really hoping it’s better than this one was.