Lair of Dreams: A Diviners Novel (Diviners, #2)

by Libba Bray

After a supernatural showdown with a serial killer, Evie O'Neill has outed herself as a Diviner. Now that the world knows of her ability to 'read' objects, and therefore, read the past, she has become a media darling, earning the title, 'America's Sweetheart Seer'. But not everyone is so accepting of the Diviners' abilities . . .

Meanwhile, mysterious deaths have been turning up in the city, victims of an unknown sleeping sickness. Can the Diviners descend into the dreamworld and catch a killer?

• ISBN13: 9780316126038
• Publish Date: 5 September 2017 (first published 7 April 2015)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 592
• Language: English

Reviews

[alindstadtcorbeax]

Star Rating: —> 5 Stars

Pos-i-tute-ly Fantastic. Wowwwwzers. RTC
To Before The Devil Breaks you it is!

[girlinthepages]

After ending the first book in the series on such a high note, I was eager to start book 2 (and even did so ahead of schedule). However, my excitement was short lived when I realized that this book was going to have a very different feel than the first one, and focus primarily on dream walking, which can be done by Henry and Ling-Chan. Now, I am REALLY not a fan of stories that just focus on the characters wandering around (a la Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows endless forest scenes) so I knew this book was going to be a tough one for me to get through. While there were some bright spots (I loved the look into 1920s radio with Evie's "sweetheart seer" show, learning more about Sam's backstory, and Henry's as well) most of the story really dragged for me and I found myself totally zoning out a bunch. Even the ending (which was really quite disturbing) bored me because I was just at the point where I was desperate to get through it (at over 20 hours on audio it's a real commitment). I think I'm probably in the minority here since a lot of people loved this book, but it really didn't have the elements of the first installment that I enjoyed so much.

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[Stephanie]

Maybe more like 3.5. I liked the story and the narration was awesome but it was just so long. I would go back and forth between enjoying it and wishing I was just done with it already. This audiobook is over 20 hours long, so it takes a while to get through. Maybe some of my impatience came from the fact that I saw some of the twists coming from the very beginning so it was hard to listen to the characters try to figure this thing out when I thought it was so obvious. Other than that I really enjoyed the whole dream walking and sleeping sickness part of the story.

[Linda]

*I received a free ARC of Lair of Dreams from Little, Brown Books for Young Readers via Netgalley in exchange of an honest and unbiased review*

The plot thickens in Lair of Dreams, with more players in the big game of Diviners, and several sub-plots to bring the main one to light. Well written with many characters who do their best to stay true to themselves, it was an exciting story.

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