1 Jacob is facing the hollow in front of the phone booth. The hollow doesn't move, as if in some trance caused by Jacob's powers, it only follows Jacob with his eyes. There is only one way to escape it and it is slipping through the small space between the hollow and the wall. Jacob, Addison and Emma take that chance. Jacob is trying to slip between but the hollow starts to move. Jacob thinks this is his death and suddenly feels the same calm as before and orders the monster to back off again in an unknown language. As they are escaping they are noticed by wights. Cornered by wights Jacob sees the hollow launching towards him. He orders the hollow to attack the wights and the four of the peculiars escape: Jacob, Emma, Addison and Sergei the folding man who was badly wounded in the previous events. They all get aboard a train in hopes of tracking Miss Wren and their friends. The wights catch up to them and they are forced to leave wounded Sergei behind. Being chased by wights they find a trail to their friends on a boat harbor. There they meet Sharon, a boatman. He tells them about Devil's Acre: a loop where outlaws and criminals of the peculiar world find their refuge. They are certain that that's where their friends are hidden. They tell Sharon to lead them there.
Analysis- Jacob is learning an extraordinary side to his peculiar powers. He can control the hollows. On the downside the hollow keeps following him and is a threat if woken from the trance, but Jacob keeps this a secret from his friends. In this chapter we also learn that the wights are probably hiding their operation under everyone's nose. It is quite a clever idea, but not clever enough for the peculiar heroes.
2 Sharon leads them into the Devil's Acre loop. They have to hide underneath a piece of cloth to hide from vultures. Devil's Acre is a rotting place where the same water serves as a sewer and spring. There are peculiars creating murk-a fog like yellow smoke. The boat is stopped by two local men. Jacob senses his hollow following them underneath the water. The men uncover the cloth and chaos breaks out. Jacob is ordering his hollow to kill the men and when he orders him to destroy the bridge with one of the vultures Jacob thinks his hollow is killed along the way. Escaping Sharon leads them to the coast and wants nothing more to do with the peculiar heroes, especially seeing how Jacob can control creatures of the night. After some negotiating words from Addison and the fact that Sharon's boat is destroyed and he has to find a way to fix it Sharon decides to show mercy and help the peculiar kids.
Analysis- What's interesting in this chapter is the detailed description of the Devil's Acre loop. The place is stinky, rotting and diseased. Jacob seems to be getting more and more skilled in controlling his hollow. Sharon is also an interesting character, he has a hood covering his face and when he uncovers it the local children run and scream in fear.
3 Sharon leads them through the rotten streets into the heart of Devil's Acre where peculiars dwell. That area is vastly different from the disease stricken shell of Devil's Acre. There is order in cleanliness. There are also peculiars who sell their peculiar powers as services. The peculiar trio is left alone and they stumble upon a woman that sells the services of peculiars. The woman tells them where the wights take their prisoners after the furious investigation led by Emma. Upon arriving at the bridge that stands in front of the wights' fortress peculiar trio is met with other peculiars addicted to Ambrose and other addictive substances. They also meet bridge heads that warn them against crossing the bridge. The bridge is not finished and they make an improvised little bridge out of bridge heads' posts. There is a hollow under the bridge and it attacks them. With an excruciating effort from Jacob the hollow drops them on the bridge badly hurt but, alive. The wights' prison car arrives and Addison manages to cling onto it and crosses over the bridge. The ill peculiars attack Emma and Jacob and in the last moment they get saved by Sharon and riggers.
Analysis- There is a generous description of the Devil's Acre in this chapter: from the ill, poor and miserable outskirts and normals stuck in that misery as a part of the loop background to a somewhat orderly centre of the Devil's Acre where the peculiars are. When the peculiar trio arrives to the Wight's fortress Emma is surprised and finds the look of the fortress comic because it is not as terrifying as she imagined it. But, in this case it would be proper to say: Don't judge a book by its cover. Jacob also learns more about his connection to hollows-he needs to closely connect to them in order to really control them.
4 Jacob wakes up in bed. Sharon and Emma join him in the room he was taken care of. Most of his wounds are healed. They are in Mr. Bentham's house who is a friend of Sharon. He sends a message to Jacob and Emma that he wants to talk to them in an hour. Determined to not just wait around for an hour Emma and Jacob set out to explore the house. They find rooms filled with peculiar relics. They also find rooms all looking the same except the names written on doors. They reach a room called Siberian room. There is snow and cold air coming out of it. When they enter it they see a cave. They enter the cave and it leads them to a cold snowy landscape. They see a man in the distance looking down. The man notices them and starts running after them. There is also a bear running behind him. They escape the Siberian room and hide but are soon discovered and the man from the cave was Mr Bentham and the bear is his pet bear. Mr Bentham tells Jacob and Emma about his house-it is a Panloopticon, it contains entrances to other loops around the world. He also tells them an old story about the Library of Souls. It is a place where the peculiars that were about to die left their peculiar souls to serve for next generations. It functions like that for many centuries until some peculiars realised they can enter it even if they aren't about to die and take the peculiar souls. It created a corruption and fight for power and control of the Library of Souls. Mr Bentham also tells them about his brother. He and his brother were working on the machine Panloopticon to change the peculiardom for the better. But, his brother had other plans and decided to use it for power and control. Mr Bentham's brother's real name is Jack, now known by the name Caul. Mr Bentham is Miss Peregrine's second brother. He is the reason hollows and wights got created. Caul is after the Library of Souls and to open it he needs twelve ymbrynes. What he doesn't know is that he needs a Librarian-the one person who can actually see the peculiar souls otherwise all his effort will be useless. Caul also created a copy of Panloopticon and destroyed Bentham's making it only possible for him to enter the Siberian loop. In order to connect the two Panloopticons a hollowgast is needed. Jacob agrees to bring his hollow to Mr Bentham because apparently it wasn't killed at the bridge.
Analysis- There is a lot of new information the peculiar children learn, but there is also a new hope of rescuing their friends, because the copied Panloopticon is the centre of the wights and if they manage to enter it then they will be able to save their friends.
5 Sharon with Emma and Jacob behind him acting as his slaves entered a fighting pit where the locals keep the hollow as a part of the show. There are peculiars addicted to Ambrose everywhere. Jacob learns that Ambrose is a matter made from crushed peculiar souls. Jacob enters the fighting pit to fight the hollow. He has it under his control and puts on a show. In a risky turn of events Jacob Sharon and Emma walk out with a wounded hollow out of the fighting pit while the spectators keep watching. Out on the street they realise they can't risk being seen entering Bentham's property with a hollow on their side (it has pain all over it that makes it visible) and they find a solution in hiding it in the laundry cart. After that no one gives them a second look.
Analysis- In this chapter we learn more about the Ambrose substance. It enhances the peculiar abilities of a peculiar but also drains them making the person addicted to the substance. It is created with crushed peculiar souls making the peculiars cannibals and ensuring the wights' control over them.
6 They reach Bentham's house and Bentham summons his healer. While the hollow is healing Bentham tells them that he is responsible for what happened to Jacob's grandfather. They were friends and in an attempt to make the peculiars more powerful against hollows he extracted a bit of Abe's peculiar soul. That did nothing to help the fight and only resulted in Abe growing weaker. That is why he was unable to defend himself against the hollow, not because he was old. The hollow is healed and they put him into the chamber to make the machine, Panloopticon, running. Jacob feels bad for the monster and is reluctant to put him there. The machine is up and running. Suddenly, Jacob receives a message from Miss Peregrine via a parrot. The message says that she is safe and well together with all of the peculiars in Caul's tower. It is obvious that the message didn't come from Miss Peregrine. The parrot is also a bomb and it explodes as a warning. It means that Caul knows where they are. Emma and Jacob get ready to enter the loop to Caul's Panloopticon.
Analysis- In this chapter Jacob develops a strange sense of compassion to his hollow. Seeing the beast curled up into a foetal position from pain makes it seem not so nightmarish as before. It appears that the man they met, Bentham, caused all the chaos in peculiardom by accident. How can a man be this unlucky? Jacob trusts that the man's intention weren't corrupted but he, Emma as well, doubts if he should test Mr Bentham's luck once again but, they have no other choice.
7 Emma and Jacob enter Caul's Panloopticon. They are searching for their friends. On the outside of the fortress Sharon is helping them by throwing flamed things into the fortress to distract the guards. It worked and Emma and Jacob find their friends imprisoned in the ground bellow. Then they enter another door where ymbrynes are kept. Caul starts talking over the speaker. The ymbrynes are trapped in another room protected by glass. Caul makes a proposal for them: they let him take a part of their soul or he lets his hollows do it for him. Jacob chooses the latter and they enter the room with ymbrynes. A hollow enters the room and Jacob starts fighting it. Jacob is about to take a dose of Ambrose when Miss Peregrine stops him, she is tied on the floor but alive. The hollow gets a hold of Jacob and traps him inside his mouth. Jacob takes out a finger from Mother Healer that she gave them in a case of need and throws it inside the hollow's mouth. The healing dust works both on Jacob and hollow and the beast falls to his burrow unconscious.
Analysis- Emma and Jacob witness the horrors of experimentation on their fellow peculiars inside Caul's fortress, but nevertheless they find their friends alive.
8 Jacob finds himself controlling twelve hollows and together with the ymbrynes and his peculiar friends engages into a battle with wights. All but one hollow that Jacob is controlling die but it appears that they won the battle. Bentham also joined them. Suddenly Caul captures Miss Peregrine and Bentham turns against the peculiar children. Things are completely reversed and it seems like Caul won again. Jacob is forced to let go of his one remaining hollow.
Analysis- In this chapter Jacob's peculiar power in his full capacity, he is controlling so many hollows at once. Just as things seem to be looking up for them though, Caul turns things around. It appears that Bentham's involvement with the wights and hollow creation wasn't that accidental after all. Caul needs Jacob to unlock the Library of Souls.
9 Caul, Bentham, the peculiar group, ymbrynes and Sharon and his friends all enter Abaton-the place of Library of Souls. Caul tells Jacob and Emma to follow him and Bentham and his bear with Miss Peregrine on bear's back to the cave where the peculiar souls are. Jacob is the only one who can see the jars of soul and force reports to Caul what he is seeing. Dissatisfied with the findings Caul urges them to go further to the heart of the cave. There they find the more powerful peculiar souls. To take the peculiar soul it has to be mixed with the pool in the centre of the cave creating a spirit pool. Caul takes the biggest jar and sucks up the soul making himself into a telekinetic giant. In a turn of events Bentham takes one of the souls and turns himself into an insect-like giant as well. Jacob miraculously survives the gunshot from Caul with the help of the scarf Horace made from him out of peculiar sheep's' wool. Before turning into the giant Bentham gave Miss Peregrine instructions to destroy the Abaton loop. The two giants are fighting against each other. The ymbrynes destroy the loop. They manage to avoid being suck into the destruction. The loop and the wights' fortress are finally destroyed together with their owner.
Analysis- In a climactic turn of events the two brothers turn against each other. It appears that the whole effort for power was to prove who the stronger brother is. Bentham had Jacob's grandfather's soul all the time and he takes it, but eventually it is put to the good cause, to stop his brother from wreaking chaos onto the world. The battle is finally over.
10 The peculiar group take shelter in Bentham's house to get into action to create order and get the news about wights defeat out. Emma and Jacob have a talk about what will Jacob do next. He decides it's for the best to go back to his parents and grow up as a normal teenager and then eventually go back to Emma. Emma is reluctant to believe he will think like this when he grows up as well and tells him to be friends instead. After heart wrenching goodbyes Sharon leads Jacob, Emma and Miss Peregrine out of the loop. Miss Peregrine promises Jacob that she will make his parents forget any peculiar memories they have which saves him a lot of trouble.
Analysis- Jacob is torn between two lives: a peculiar Jacob and a normal rich kid Jacob. He has to make a life changing decision. He misses his parents and can't imagine not seeing them again. He is certain in his love for Emma though and hopes to one day really be with her.
11 In the final chapter Jacob is adjusting to his normal life. He is putting on an act of not knowing what happened to him while he was away. He and Emma start to write letters to each other. Everything seems to be going well until his parents discover Emma's letters. They think he's completely gone insane having imaginary girlfriend. He's under complete supervision but manages to slip an e-mail to Emma. They are about to drive him to the mental hospital when the peculiar children and Miss Peregrine stop them. The peculiar children made an amazing discovery: their age has been reset and they won't age forward out of loops. It is an effect of the Abaton destruction. Miss Peregrine and the children have decided to take a vacation in Jacob's house. Jacob is happy that he and Emma finally have the most precious thing that they can have: time.
Analysis- Maybe coming back to his parents wasn't a great idea after all as Jacob is about to spend his life in a mental hospital. But, of course, Miss Peregrine and the peculiar children come to the rescue and the peculiar story ends with a more than a happy ending.
