Genre: YA Historical Fantasy
The Diviners Series, Book 2
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Description (taken 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?
The world of Diviners from the early 1900s is back. Our beloved characters including Evie, Henry, Jericho, Mabel, and others are back for another paranormal story. We also get introduced to new characters like Ling and learn a few more back stories. We're in New York City where a sleeping sickness is terrorizing Chinatown. Within the dream, there's a girl who promises you the riches of the world and all you have to do is dream with her. The only catch is you'll never wake up.
Evie now has her own radio talkshow as a diviner, and she's all about stirring up drama in order to get a story in. The only problem is some of these fake stories she comes up with begin to stir a little bit of truth around until no one's sure what's fake anymore. But she's just a side character in this story. Henry is the one who stands out. We learn so much about his past in New Orleans and how his dream-walking ability works. And when he meets another dream-walker named Ling, they find themselves in the perfect dreamworld never wanting to leave. Yet at the same time, there are plenty of people dying from the sleeping sickness. Will Henry and Ling have enough willpower to leave their dreams behind and combat the evil creating this sickness?
I've got two opinions on this book. On the one hand, Libba Bray is an excellent story-teller. She weaves so many stories together into one, and they all happen to perfectly follow the plot. On the other hand, did you see how big that book was?! This book was huge and took a really long time to read. But I don't want to say I wish it were shorter. Maybe I just wish I read faster...
This series is from an interesting era where superstition and mysticism still existed. And if you're a fan of historical paranormal fiction, I think you're going to love these books. You just kind of have to get over how big the books are (still worth it).
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