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The Diviners (The Diviners, #1)

Libba Bray

Start date: December 2, 2020

Finish date: January 11, 2021

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Jul 23, 2010 Danielle The Book Huntress rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: historical-fantasy, character-diversity, library-checkout, psychopaths-and-serial-killers, not-for-the-faint-of-heart, 2013-200s-club-challenge, audiobook, to-buy-wish-list, occult-detective, dark-fiction

I have to give it to Libba Bray. She captured the Roaring 20s in full color. I can tell she put some serious research into this book, but also endowed this period with her own spark and brought it to life for this reader.

This was an odyssey in some ways. A long read, and a long listen. Thinking about this book gives me an ambivalent feeling. The subject matter is very dark. The tone quite pessimistic. I realize that this is the authentic feeling of youngsters of this period. How can you believe ...more

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Apr 25, 2012 Julia rated it it was amazing

Shelves: magical-realism, ya, literary-ficton, urban-fantasy, alternative-history, historical-fantasy, upstate-ny-setting-moment-idea, steampunk, best-book-i-read-in-2012

Young Evie, a flapper, gets exiled to her Uncle Will’s in Manhattan after telling the truth about a boy in her set from Zenith, Ohio. (view spoiler) Uncle Will runs the Museum of the Creepy Crawlies aka Museum of American Folklore, Superstition and the Occult and he and his associates are asked by the police to help solve a murder. Jericho, who works at the Museum as Will’s assistant, also has secrets,(view ...more

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