The Diviners

The Diviners

By Libba Bray

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Grades 10 - 12Grades 3 - 5n/a4.8n/a
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, Ziegfield 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....

Printz Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Libba Bray opens a brand-new historical series with The Diviners, where the glittering surface of the Roaring Twenties hides a mystical horror creeping across the country.
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN-13: 9780316126106
ISBN-10: 0316126101
Published on 12/3/2013
Binding: Paperback
Number of pages: 608

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The Diviners is a very good story set in 1926 New York. A girl named Evie is sent to New York City after an unfortunate altercation in her hometown of Zenith, Ohio. She is a big fan of cities, and is ecstatic to get there. However, she is sent to live with her uncle who has an obsession with anything paranormal. Evie herself has an unnatural gift which she must hide. During this, a murderer called the Pentacle Killer is ravaging New York, killing citizens in gruesome ways. Evie finds out that her gift may be the very thing that can save her new home. I loved this story. It is very well-written and identical to what it would be like to live in 1926 New York. The overall plot is mature, so I would give it 7th grade and up. I thoroughly enjoyed every part of this, and I am engrossed in Lair of Dreams (the second book in the series).