The Diviners

De: Libba Bray

Narrado por: January LaVoy

SOMETHING DARK AND EVIL HAS AWAKENED. . . .
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 her uncle will 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 is hiding a shocking secret. And unknown to all, something dark and evil has awakened. . . .

Includes an Introduction Read by Libba Bray

Gets better after the first half!

Please do not be deterred by the annoying protagonist. I agree with many reviewers that Evie is a total brat. I almost reached a breaking point with her attention-junkie antics until I reached the mid-point of the story when she gets knocked on her butt and is forced to act like a decent human being. I'm not promising that you will come to like her later in the book but she becomes much more tolerable when she decides to become useful. Aside from the main character, this book is worth an audible credit. The paranormal mystery and world-building can't be beat! Guess I'll have to endure Evie in the next book since I'm hooked into the series.

Distracting Slang

The story took awhile to get interesting but moved pretty fast once it did. I felt the flapper slang detracted quite a bit from the story. We get it, it's set in the 20's. With so much emphasis on setting the feel of the era, it was irksome that Evie kept casually slipping $20 into her pocket, which would be worth about $250 in today's currency. $5 drinks were mentioned at one point, which would equate to $62. A minor quibble-ski to be sure; I may just be cranky after having to hear the word "positootley" a million times.

Read this book

I've been hopping along from one book to another this past year. I'd run out of books by most of my favorite contemporary authors like Leanne Moriarty and Ken Follet, stumbling from readers lists to kindle recommendations until a badge popped up on my audible app. Before the first chapter was over I was hooked and before the end I was delighted, not only with the story but the setup to a series. I'm getting on Amazon right now to download the next two books. The performance was good overall but I couldn't help but feel like I was missing something special while listening to the reader's voices for characters like Jericho and Nasty John. You'll love this book. Try it out with Audible if you are in the middle of a different book or like to listen in the car (if only to get you a started ).

Narrator should not try to sing

The story is fabulous and wonderfully true to its time period. The narrator not so much. The tone deaf singing happens often enough to annoy me as well as some of her accent choices. The character Sam’s accent varies throughout the book too. I think I’m just going to read the rest of the books in the series.

A book you can get lost into

I really really enjoyed this book! The story line had purpose and suspense. Great charters and narration. All you have to do is sit back and enjoy.