Lair of Dreams: The Diviners Book 2

Libba Bray — 2015

THE NEW YORK TIMES #1 BESTSELLER 1920s New York. America's Sweetheart Seer. Diviners dream-walk. Follow them down. After a supernatural showdown with a serial killer, Evie O'Neill has outed herself as a Diviner. With her uncanny ability to read people's secrets, she's become a media darling, and everyone's in love with the city's newest It Girl. Everyone, that is, except the other Diviners, such as piano-playing Henry DuBois and Chinatown resident Ling Chan, both struggling to keep their powers a secret - for they can walk in dreams. While Evie lives the high life, victims of a mysterious sleeping sickness start turning up across New York City. As Henry searches for lost love, and Ling strives to succeed in a world that shuns her, a malevolent force infects their dreams. And at the edges of it all lurks a man in a stovepipe hat, who has plans that extend farther than anyone can guess. As the sickness spreads, can the Diviners descend into the dreamworld to save the city? In this heart-stopping sequel to The Diviners, New York Times bestselling and Printz Award winning author Libba Bray takes readers deeper into the mystical underbelly of New York City. 'The ambitiously broad focus of this novel strikes just the right balance.Weaving together a chilling mystery with a truly elusive solution, several poignant love stories, agonising injustice, terrifyingly monstrous dreams, and even a cameo by legendary psychiatrist Carl Jung, this instalment wraps enough up to satisfy but clearly sets the stage for more.' Kirkus, starred review

Reviews

Kendra Jones@kendraij

Dec 7, 2021

This story starts soon after The Diviners left off, with relationships between characters either blooming or slowly decaying. Evie is suffering from some PTSD and can be, at times, insufferable. Jericho, Mabel and Will's characters were pushed to the side in this book to make way for Henry and Ling, both of whom I fell in love with. The man in the stove-pipe hat and the Shadow Men were ominous and are beginning to provide a link between this story and the upcoming books. Libba Bray is drawing me in with these mysterious characters and how they link to the diviners. This wasn't a five star book because, whilst I love Evie, how she treats other people is horrible, same with how Jericho treats Mabel. I overall loved the characters and plot, even if it was slow at times.

laura@booksandpops400

Nov 20, 2021

Lair of dreams: Spoiler Review I waited so long for this book and was so happy with it. The book is so long but so well written. It is a complex world but build so well. i really loved how drastic the tones and relationship of this book was, reading them back to back really accented this for me. I thought that this book really focused not the new mystery and also really increased the info we knew about all of the characters. i liked both meeting new diviners and learning old characters really did have powers like Sam. I sorted of guessed that from book one but it was nice to see it was really true. The books is so large and with large character list it is nice when they interact with new characters. I loved meeting the new characters and just the dream walking aspect was so cool to read about and also really creepy. I love this book and can't wait for the the third in this series. The books are long but worth the time commitment. Check out my video review of the first two books in the series. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsxRC...

Jas Wang@bluej

Feb 20, 2022

Elise Winters@killerpanda347

Oct 12, 2021