Goodreads Monday is a weekly meme where we randomly select a book from our Goodreads To Be Read list and share it with the world. It’s hosted by Lauren’s Page Turners, so be sure to link back to her site so that we can all see what everyone plans to read!
The Diviners (The Diviners #1)
by Libba Bray
YA Historical Fantasy
578 pages
Published in September 2012, by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
From Goodreads: Evie O’Neill has been exiled from her boring old hometown and shipped off to the bustling streets of New York City—and she is pos-i-tute-ly ecstatic. It’s 1926, and New York is filled with speakeasies, Ziegfeld girls, and rakish pickpockets. The only catch is that she has to live with her uncle Will and his unhealthy obsession with the occult.
Evie worries he’ll discover her darkest secret: a supernatural power that has only brought her trouble so far. But when the police find a murdered girl branded with a cryptic symbol and Will is called to the scene, Evie realizes her gift could help catch a serial killer.
As Evie jumps headlong into a dance with a murderer, other stories unfold in the city that never sleeps. A young man named Memphis is caught between two worlds. A chorus girl named Theta is running from her past. A student named Jericho hides a shocking secret. And unknown to all, something dark and evil has awakened.
I’ve recently heard good things about this book, and the synopsis sounds interesting. Once the library opens again (someday), I’ll have to see about tracking it down and giving it a try. Have any of you read it? If so, what did you think of it?
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I’ve heard about this series since the beginning of my blogging days and have been curious about it but could never tell if I’d be intrigued or disappointed by it. 😮
I’m the same way, and I’m a little hesitant to pick it up, since it’s almost 600 pages. Maybe someday, when the libraries re-open for normal service…
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I enjoyed it. It is YA and have some of those annoying YA tropes, like love triangles, but I thought it was a good read.
That’s good to hear. I might pick up a copy when I can go to the library again.
I read this recently and I absolutely loved it. It would make an excellent Halloween read as there are some truly chilling scenes but I’d recommend picking it up any day of the year! I hope you get to read it soon.
I will have to give it a try! Maybe if my library has it on audiobook that I can listen to in my car. I seem to always listen to gothic novels or other foreboding books there.
You should definitely get the audiobook version if you can. January LaVoy’s narration is amazing!
I checked with my library last night, and they just have physical books or ebooks. Alas! I’ll have to “just” read it.
Oh well. It’s still a brilliant book no matter how you read it. Hope you enjoy it!