Set in 1920's New York city The Diviners by Libba Bray walks a delightfully fine line between an action packed adventure and a creepy horror story. Much to her delight our protagonist Evie O' Neill has been banished from her small town home and sent to live with her uncle in New York. At home Evie was always one step across the line pushing the limits of acceptable behaviour, but in New York she's right at home frequenting speakeasies with her friends and living the high life of the young and wealthy in the 1920's. But Evie has a secret. She can read people's pasts from objects they have carried with them, and when her uncle is called upon to help investigators solve a string of occult related murders Evie begins to realize that her talent may have more importance and farther reaching consequences than she ever imagined.
I quite enjoyed this book! It was fast paced and in spite of its large size (over 500 pages) it never felt like I had to push through the "boring parts" to get to the end. Evie was a fun and lovely yet flawed main character and I enjoyed how seemingly disconnected story lines came together throughout the book. The ending especially left me wanting more, and I was surprised to find that characters that at first seemed harmless and secondary become such dastardly villains. Bray really knows how to create fantasy fiction that blends seamlessly into the real world, with myth and magic becoming an underground culture that we all secretly hope exists somewhere.
I'm not normally someone who can read an even slightly scary book and recover quickly so I have to say that they gruesome murders and evil spirits made me stay up late finishing chapters so I knew our heroine and her friends were safe and I dashing up stair cases at night time with shivers going down my spine.
Well worth a read!
Enjoy!
I quite enjoyed this book! It was fast paced and in spite of its large size (over 500 pages) it never felt like I had to push through the "boring parts" to get to the end. Evie was a fun and lovely yet flawed main character and I enjoyed how seemingly disconnected story lines came together throughout the book. The ending especially left me wanting more, and I was surprised to find that characters that at first seemed harmless and secondary become such dastardly villains. Bray really knows how to create fantasy fiction that blends seamlessly into the real world, with myth and magic becoming an underground culture that we all secretly hope exists somewhere.
I'm not normally someone who can read an even slightly scary book and recover quickly so I have to say that they gruesome murders and evil spirits made me stay up late finishing chapters so I knew our heroine and her friends were safe and I dashing up stair cases at night time with shivers going down my spine.
Well worth a read!
Enjoy!
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