{"id":18502,"date":"2013-04-03T08:00:26","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T13:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=18502"},"modified":"2013-03-16T12:33:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-16T17:33:00","slug":"the-diviners-by-libba-bray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/the-diviners-by-libba-bray\/","title":{"rendered":"The Diviners by Libba Bray"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"diviners\"<\/a>One of my favorite Young Adult books that I’ve read recently is The Diviners<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Libba Bray. \u00a0Set in the Roaring ’20s, it’s about a teen girl named Evie O’Neill who is sent away from her Ohio hometown after an incident at a party. \u00a0Shipped off to live with her uncle in New York, Evie is secretly thrilled at the prospect of life in the big city. \u00a0The excitement begins immediately when the police seek out the help of her uncle, the curator of the Museum of American Folklore, Superstition, and the Occult, in the hope that he can help solve a series of disturbing occult-related murders. \u00a0The\u00a0possessor\u00a0of secret supernatural gifts, Evie gets more than she bargained for when she is quickly tangled up in the investigation and begins to suspect that the killer is no ordinary man.<\/p>\n

Despite all the glowing reviews I read, I was hesitant to pick up this book at first because it is\u00a0HUGE.\u00a0 Luckily we had a copy of the audio book<\/strong> <\/em><\/a>on shelf, which seemed less daunting, and I am so glad that I\u00a0decided to give it a try.\u00a0I really enjoyed the setting and thought that Libba Bray did a great job of making the time period come to life for the reader.\u00a0 I’m not usually up for creepy stories at all, but from minute one I was completely hooked on this engrossing tale couldn’t wait to find out what happened to the compelling characters next.\u00a0 The<\/strong> Diviners<\/strong><\/em><\/a> is the first book in a planned quartet, and I can’t wait for the next\u00a0installment in the series! \u00a0While I’m waiting, I think I’ll have to pick up a few of her other books like A Great and Terrible Beauty<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, Going Bovine<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, or Beauty Queens<\/strong><\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of my favorite Young Adult books that I’ve read recently is The Diviners by Libba Bray. \u00a0Set in the Roaring ’20s, it’s about a teen girl named Evie O’Neill who is sent away from her Ohio hometown after an incident at a party. \u00a0Shipped off to live with her[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[743,333,2231],"class_list":["post-18502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-staff-picks","tag-magic","tag-mystery","tag-occult"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-4Oq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18502"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19275,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18502\/revisions\/19275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}