The Diviners

Title: The Diviners
Author: Libba Bray
Series: The Diviners #1
Genre: Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Horror, Young Adult
Format: Hard Cover
Pages: 785
Reason Read: Just Because
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My Thoughts

THE DIVINERS was creepy, fun, interesting, suspenseful, and even a little bit romantic. I loved being thrown into 1920s New York City and experiencing all the fun of that era. I almost want to become a flapper myself now.

There are a lot of characters in this book. My favorite characters were Evie, Jericho, Memphis, Theta, and Henry. The story is mostly told in a third-person limited perspective from Evie’s and Memphis’s POV. You do get to get in the head of several other characters. I loved experiencing the story from so many different POVs and trying to piece everything together.

I found the supernatural aspects of the story very intriguing, especially when the characters talked about the Occult and religion in general. It made for a very interesting read and mystery. I also thought it was fun to see a shout out of my religion in the book.

While THE DIVINERS does have its own story arc, including a resolution, it’s definitely a set up novel to help readers become familiar with the characters and the world. “The Diviners” were hinted at several times during the story, but at this point, we still don’t know much about them other than that they have different supernatural-type powers and that they’ll be needed and important to stop the end of the world. I’m very interested to see how they’ll be needed and what types of things will lead up to the apocalypse in this series.