The King of Crows
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Last chapters felt rushed, anyone else agree? (spoilers ahead)
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Mayela wrote: "I loved the last book in this series as much as I loved the ones before it. I'm letting everything sink in before writing a review, but the one nagging little complain I have is that I would have l..."I agree there was SO much time spent on the boom towns and the road to Nebraska and then the parts we actually care about is about 100 pages. I am incredibly curious about Miriam because she was a natural born Diviner, what happened to her powers? Is she excited about Sam and Evie's wedding? how did she get left out of the epilogue when she was such an important part of Sams entire story?
Perhaps the Jericho/Lupe wasn't needed but I liked seeing him able to move on a be happy. I liked that he didnt 'die for Evie' which was the other direction that could have gone. So it was nice that the love triangle ended with all parties being happy (ya know until Jericho died... but we moved on from that so fast)
Marlowe dying off screen was a disservice for sure. Everything was his fault more or less and to be like "oh yeah and also he died, moving on!" was so frustrating. A showdown with him would have been more impactful considering that the king of crows seems a bit more...impossible to defeat. Sure Isaiah seemed to defeat him but given that hes created by greed and despair etc its logical to me that he would come back? and its a matter of keeping the men like Marlowe in check that will prevent the King of Crows from infecting our world again. I would have liked a more satisfying conclusion with the diviners taking out Marlowe, but i think she was trying to keep her heroines from actually killing anyone so it required Marlowe to be killed by an outside force and in that sense the death was the logical outcome.
My biggest concern with the Diviners future is: how old would Sam Henry and Memphis be in 1941? would they be drafted?! (i just googled this and yeah. anyone between 21 and 36 was automatically drafted, but in wwii it widened to 18-65 had to register. so YES they would have and God. I dont think i can handle Sam going to war without his 'dont see me' power. nope nope nope)
Laura wrote: "Mayela wrote: "I loved the last book in this series as much as I loved the ones before it. I'm letting everything sink in before writing a review, but the one nagging little complain I have is that..."Yes! Miriam's power was natural, what happened to it? I imagine it was partly fueled by the other side, once the connection was created through the eye, so maybe she went back to being mildly able to tell fortunes but not much more?
Such a disservice, indeed! I always thought that Jake Marlowe was more evil than the King of Crows because he was human. The King of Crows was evil incarnate, so by definition, he had to be inhumane. But Marlowe's cruelty and lack of humanity was a choice, and that made him the real big villain of the story to me. So it was so frustrating to just have him die off scene. I understand he was killed by his own ambition and lack of humility, had he listened to the diviners he wouldn't have died, but I'd have liked some paragraphs of his demise. What was he thinking? Did he think "oh damn it, I should have listened?" as the machine exploded and killed him?
I know! I don't want to think about Sam, Henry, Memphis, Isaiah having to go fight but that epilogue made it inevitable.
Hope I am not too late to join the party. I finished the Diviner series about a month ago.These are really good topics that I never really noticed (besides the Jericho portion/Miriam)
I totally agree with the Jericho/Lupe romance. To me it rushed Jericho's character development. Since book 1 he was obsessed with Evie to a point it was almost creepy (at least to me). It seemed weird to me that one girl was able to "change" him. It happened suddenly. Even though it would be very sad, I think it would of been better to let him be single and still get over Evie. To be fair though, I do love tragic character endings.
Miriam's powers were so interesting. I wished we got to see them in action.
I agree that Marlowe was the true villain of the story. He embedded the materialistic greed of the 1920s, thus feeding the King of Crows. I would of loved to him die on scene too. Perhaps surrounded by the people he wronged.
Since the epilogue was also a prologue, it made me guess that maybe it was a hint to another series that also takes place in the Diviners' universe but in WWII. But *shrugs* I dunno.
J. wrote: "Hope I am not too late to join the party. I finished the Diviner series about a month ago.These are really good topics that I never really noticed (besides the Jericho portion/Miriam)
I totally ..."
Considering she tied the Diviners into the same universe as the Gemma Doyle Trilogy it's a safe guess that her next series with supernatural-ness will probably have some kind of cameo from the Diviners crew.
I haven't reread the series since i wrote that post but i really want to read it again. I love it all so much, even though i didnt totally love the end of this book
Speaking of which, should I read the Gemma Doyle Trilogy? I have been thinking about it, but I am not really sure. It is in first person, I noticed which I am a little hesitant because I loved the Diviners' multiple POV's
It’s her first work and that is definitely evident. It isn’t as strong a series, but as i read it as it was coming out and when it was “of it’s time” (I believe there are things that didnt age well but it has been a while since I read it) I didn’t notice the flaws. It’s definitely fun and atmospheric but Diviners is significantly better.
Laura wrote: "It’s her first work and that is definitely evident. It isn’t as strong a series, but as i read it as it was coming out and when it was “of it’s time” (I believe there are things that didnt age well..."ohh, okay that is good to know. thanks!
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Did we need the silly Jerico and Lupe romance? Did we need all those examples of boom towns being eaten by the death to be quite so lengthy? Nope, we did not. Could those pages have been better used to a) see Marlowe's death because come on, he was worse than the King of Crows and somehow he gets killed offscreen and b) have more of a wrap up for the characters we know and love? Yes, yes they could have.
What happened to Sister Walker, other than being exonerated? What happened to Miriam, aka MVP? She survives, ok, but then what? Maybe I just wasn't ready to let go of this universe.
(I'm also the sort of crazy attached reader who thinks of characters as if they were real people. So, we leave them in 1927. What happens to them when the market crashes in 1929? What happens in 1941 when the US joins WWII? Can we have like 7 more books, Libba Bray? Thank you.)