Week 37 Reviews: The Diviners, Lair of Dreams

From Goodreads:

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 unfold in the city that never sleeps. A young man named Memphis is caught between two worlds. A chorus girl named Theta is running from her past. A student named Jericho hides a shocking secret. And unknown to all, something dark and evil has awakened.

From Goodreads:

The longing of dreams draws the dead, and this city holds many dreams.

After a supernatural showdown with a serial killer, Evie O'Neill has outed herself as a Diviner. With her uncanny ability to read people's secrets, she's become a media darling, earning the title "America's Sweetheart Seer." Everyone's in love with the city's newest It Girl…everyone except the other Diviners.

Piano-playing Henry DuBois and Chinatown resident Ling Chan are two Diviners struggling to keep their powers a secret—for they can walk in dreams. And while Evie is living the high life, victims of a mysterious sleeping sickness are turning up across New York City.

As Henry searches for a lost love and Ling strives to succeed in a world that shuns her, a malevolent force infects their dreams. And at the edges of it all lurks a man in a stovepipe hat who has plans that extend farther than anyone can guess…As the sickness spreads, can the Diviners descend into the dreamworld to save the city?

In this heart-stopping sequel to The Diviners, Printz Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Libba Bray takes readers deeper into the mystical underbelly of New York City.

My first review of The Diviners
My Review:

I really enjoyed reading these books! They're long, and they follow a lot of characters, who have interconnecting stories-though in the first book, making those connections is the big set up. I loved learning more about the world of the Diviners, and all these ghost problems that NYC is having! 

Evie was an interesting character. She wanted fame, and after the events of the first book, she got it. But she was also traumatized by what happened, and wasn't the best in Lair of Dreams. And with her relationships with Mabel and Jericho and Sam, yeah, things are complicated! 

Lair of Dreams, of course, focused on the dreamwalkers, Henry and Ling. Henry, we got some time with in The Diviners, but we didn't really get his story. So we got his, and hers, in Lair of Dreams, and I really enjoyed learning it! 

There's a few things that are building in these books. Like Jericho, and the guy that created the serum that he's taking. There's all these diviners, and their parents having something iffy about them, about drugs, to be missing or dead, that I can't wait to see what's that going to come to. And the King of Crows, which the final book got its title from. Yeah, I can't wait to see where these things go! 

These were fantastic reads, and I can't wait to continue and finish off this series! 

Author: Libba Bray
Series: The Diviners #1, 2 
First Read: March 18th, 2021

Read: September 11th, 12th, 2023
Source: Library/Bought
Reason Why: Rereading, and they're Historical Fiction 2023 Books and Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2023 Books! 
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: September 18th 2012, September 25th 2016

The Diviners:

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars

Lair of Dreams:

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars