I loved her character, she was just so alive and dazzling and she really seemed to stand out. Evie is most definitely a flapper girl, living it up and partying until dawn. What I did find very interesting though, were the characters themselves. I thought Evie was always super interesting, and I liked the majority of Memphis’ chapters later on, and Theta’s too, but for the most part I was just pretty underwhelmed. I definitely found that with a lot of the outsider character’s POVs. Honestly though, sometimes it does really bug me when all I want to do is find out what happens next to character x and instead you have to read about 50 pages of characters y and z, even though their arcs aren’t that interesting right then. I mean, Bray does name the character at the start of the chapter, and each does have a fairly distinctive voice, and since it is in 3rd person it doesn’t take too long to catch up, but I just… don’t always like switching POVs.

It is a little confusing, and I wasn’t always sure where I was at. There are actually several POVs throughout the novel, and it switches from Evie to Jericho to Naughty John to Sam to Memphis to Theta and then flips around some more. I mean, who doesn’t dust their bookshelves?!?!) That day finally came. So instead, The Diviners has sat patiently on my shelf, gathering dust and awaiting the day when I would pick it up (well, not really. There was always, always another book I just had to read first. I bought it in my post-birthday book buying spree, since I’d heard bits and pieces about it over social media, but I always found an excuse to pick up something else. This book has been on my shelf for about four months now. But soon she realizes that she’s entangled herself in a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a killer, and the dark secret she’s been fighting to keep quiet may be her salvation or her downfall. Evie goes along for the ride, thinking it will be another story to tell her jealous friends back home.

Soon after Evie’s arrival, Will and his assistant Jericho are called on to attend the scene of a murdered girl who has been branded with a cryptic symbol. But it seems like life in the city that never sleeps might not be perfect after all. It feels like the opportunity of a lifetime, a chance to meet up with her old pal Mabel, not to mention the speakeasies, the Ziegfeld girls and the never ending parties spilling out across the city. Following a crazy night of drinking, she is exiled to live with her Uncle Will, who runs a museum of the occult in New York. Evie O’Neill is too boisterous and wild to be contained by her boring old hometown.

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