Loved itand again I am so sad the divers this sat on my sh for years and you're telling me that I was just glancing at this absolute Masterpiece for years without knowing it
The diviners (2012)
Others: Overwhelmingly positive Do you believe there are ghosts and demons and Diviners among us? 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 unfurl in the city that never sleeps. And unknown to all, something dark and evil has awakened....
- ISBN:
- 9780316126106
- Length:
- 608 pages
Genres: fantasy, mystery, historical fiction, young adult
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Loved iti think my favorite thing about the diviners has to be the characters and their relationships
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Loved iti love the story i love these characters i love what libba like when libo wrote this story she was telling the ghost story of america
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Loved itI love these characters love the 1920s vibes that you get and it's a ghost story no one is more surprised than me that I like this book
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Loved itI read the first book thought it was okay and then never continued on but 2019 I gave it a second chance and then realized how much I loved it
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Loved itI read the diviner series this year and it was fantastic and I just it's a book that came out a while ago I just didn't read it until recently
Loved itI think this is one of the most underrated why a book series it deserves so much more attention and so much more hype
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Loved itThe second book is the only one that I listened to but since she also narrates the first book I would take a guess at saying everything I'm about to say about her phenomenal work on book two probably also applies to book one. I was so blown away. I did not want that book to end because she was just music to my ears.
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MixedI liked the characters and I overall liked the plot but it was a little bit too like horror and demony for me and it just scared me half to death