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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Really enjoyed both the 1920's setting and the suspense. Am looking forward to seeing more of all the characters in the next book. ( ) The Diviners is well researched and competently written, but it's a meandering, bloated slog of a read. The novel should be 300 pages shorter than it is. There are frequent small sections that are from characters who otherwise have nothing to do with the plot that were likely included because they'll feature more in later novels. However, having so many of them and so many small interruptions added serious length and boredom to the book. The Diviners also suffered from a serious case of over description. Instead of lending a mysterious atmosphere as I think was intended, it makes the book feel unfocused. Readers who love the 20s and Jazz age New York will probably enjoy some of that more than I did. The concept is great and there were definitely enjoyable parts of the book, but overall it wasn't for me. no reviews | add a review
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Seventeen-year-old Evie O'Neill is thrilled when she is exiled from small-town Ohio to New York City in 1926, even when a rash of occult-based murders thrusts Evie and her uncle, curator of The Museum of American Folklore, Superstition, and the Occult, into the thick of the investigation. No library descriptions found. |
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