Review: The Diviners by Libba Bray
This book is yet another first in a series. It seems to be harder and harder to find a stand-alone these days! I can’t seem to find any information as to whether this is a trilogy or a longer series. I had heard great hype about this book on Youtube. Everyone who has read it seems to love it to pieces. And once again I am left wondering. I wonder why I didn’t like this book as much as everyone else. Is it me? Am I too critical and hard to please? Maybe, but the fact remains that I was yet again disappointed in a book I had heard so many great things about. The story is about a young girl, Evie, who gets sent to New York to live with her uncle after a spot of trouble in her hometown. It is set in the 1920s and we are treated to a quite vivid portrait of New York at the time, including the slang, which I thought was nice. It isn’t too hard to understand the slang, based on content, and if ever there is any trouble understanding, Evie fortunately has an uncle, who som...