The Diviners

This book was ABSOLUTELY AMAZING. I loved it soooo much. Personally, I love supernatural related stuff so this book to me is a must, completely!
The plot of this book happens in the twenties in New York and it talks about a small group of people that have supernatural gifts and then there's this killer in town that is murdering people and leaving supernatural marks on their bodies like pentagrams.

I really really loved it, Libba Brays writting is so amazing that you get attached to the book since the very beginning... I was like in the third paragraph and I was already loving it a lot!
The characters are funny and some of them, I'd say, even intriguing but in a good way. Also, it can get a little scary at some point which I found awesome because few books can make me feel a little scared while reading spooky things. The only kind of negative thing I have to say is that I wished it had happened a little faster, because the action is a bit slow and personally I like a little action too.
In conclusion, I'm very glad I gave this book a try and it was worth every time that I “wasted” reading it!!

ZO goed! Ik las dit als een audioboek en dit was absoluut een meerwaarde, dankzij de fantastische uitvoering van January LaVoy.

In dit boek komen de jaren '20 van de vorige eeuw helemaal tot leven. Van straattaal over speakeasies, tot zelfs de lelijke kanten van de periode, zorgden ervoor dat ik helemaal mee gezogen werd in het verhaal.
De plot was een combinatie van mysterie en horror, met net de juiste hoeveelheid griezeligheid. Enige minpuntje was misschien het tempo, vooral omdat het einde precies wat snel werd afgehandeld.
De cast van personages zijn ook zo levensecht. Ik was absoluut geen fan van het hoofdpersonage Evie, die extreem egoïstisch is en met momenten ronduit gemeen, maar ik ben niet iemand die van een personage moet houden om een boek goed te vinden. En ook al was ik dat wel, er is nog een overvloed aan andere personages om aan die behoefte te voldoen.

Erg meeslepend, atmosferisch en spannend! Een goed afgerond verhaal, met net genoeg openstaande vragen om mij super benieuwd te maken naar het vervolg, zonder mij op mijn honger te laten zitten.

I listened to the audiobook of this, and the story and the narrator were a terrific match, January LaVoy did a great job with the various voices and accents, both the female and male characters. This was just plain fun with the setting of 1920s New York, and the slang, combined with the expert narration. And, of course, it was a bit creepy as well. A lot of future story lines were set up in The Diviners, and I plan to listen t0 – of course, in this case, listen to – the rest of the series. This made dull work at my business go a lot faster!

oh fuck this was so good but so scary!!!! i didn't know it was going to be so scary!!!! ahh!!!

I understand that some people like scary things??? but it just kind of gives me a stomachache. But I loved all the characters and the mystery and the historical detail so much that I stuck it out through the GENUINE TERROR.

the audiobook is phenomenal too, great voices for all the characters. Highly recommended for your next 15-hour drive.

I also love the diversity, taking full advantage of the 1920s NYC setting–not just white flappers but also the Harlem Renaissance, and how those worlds do and don't interact. And also ghosts ahhhh

Also for me I thought the use of 20s slang was like, just enough, but not so much to be annoying. The cat's particulars!

This book introduced a lot of characters and subplots making it clearly the first book in a series. The addition of multiple plotlines slowed the pacing a bit but in the end set up the potential for a much brisker second installment. I liked the array of characters and the flapper era so I'‘ll probably the next volume.

For so long I felt like I was watching a movie or tv show. At some points early on I was thinking the book reminded me of a distant cousin to Buffy or Scream, and was very, very in and curious to see where the book was headed. I would not suggest this for readers who don't care about reading a whole series. I don't recall when, but something happened that seemed incredibly out of place and took me aback and out of the book. Knowing there were more books after this one, the more I read the more I realized so much of what I was consuming was not part of this book's plot. I see so many people enjoyed this book and that's wonderful, but in the end I felt conned and I don't read to feel jarred to reality. So much of this book could have been left for the next for the sake of creating a solid book. But alas the whole book is a setup and I can't rate it higher.

( I'm tired of reading books that are so obviously part of series frown I'm just not willing to invest) reminded me of the TV series carnival. set a little earlier, before the depression. roaring twenties New York + flappers and drinking + occult religion and murder. it would make a fine movie/TV series of it's own. main character is sympathetic and flawed, the setting atmospheric and engaging. a little ya because of the ages of main POV characters, but not obnoxiously so. would recommend on the strength of being a decent paranormal thriller.