Back

reviewed The Diviners by Libba Bray (The Diviners, #1)

Libba Bray: The Diviners (2012, Little, Brown) 4 stars

Seventeen-year-old Evie O'Neill is thrilled when she is exiled from small-town Ohio to New York …

Review of 'The diviners' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

4 stars to The Diviners


I loved the 1920s setting in New York, the descriptions made me feel like I was there with the characters^^
Speaking of the characters, Evie was a delight (I think she was my fav), she is a little brat sometimes and very witty, not a girl with an attitude fitting to the society's expectation of women in her age, the other characters are Memphis Campbell (poor baby), Theta and Henry the bestest of friends a pianist and a revue dancer, Mabel (pure little angel), Evie's uncle Will, Sam and Jericho... It is a big cast and the pov was mainly from Evie and Memphis but switched a lot between characters, tho a little confusing at times, they are all so different and bring something to the story.

In this book, we follow Evie as she comes to live in NY with her uncle, at the same time that a series of strange and atrocious murders take place. We know who the murderer is, since we also have his POV, and welp it was a little scary and gruesome at times (so spoooky).

It was long for sure, but it never felt boring, and im sure the following books will be just as good, there is a lot of mysteries left, and I want to see more of the characters^^