Sunday 28 February 2016

Lair of Dreams

Lair of Dreams (The Diviners, #2)

Lair of Dreams is the second book of Libba Bray's Diviners series.

The longing of dreams draws the dead, and this city holds many dreams.

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, earning the title "America's Sweetheart Seer."  Everyone's in love with the city's newest It Girl... everyone expect the other Diviners.

Piano-playing Henry DubBois and Chinatown resident Ling Chan are two Diviners struggling to keep their powers a secret- for that can walk in dreams.  And while Evie is living the high life, victims of a mysterious sleeping sickness are turning up across New York City.

As Henry searches for a 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 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?

The Breakdown:
1. It amazes me how many characters that Bray develops so well in this book.  The main characters are so well fleshed out that none of them feel flat.  Even the small part characters used to forward the story of the sleeping sickness and the hungry ghost feel very real with their dreams and their fears.  I love reading about each characters past, dreams, and secrets.  Bray does an amazing job of having a character driven story, which in my opinion make the best stories.

2. I love that while Bray focuses on the sleeping sickness story, she does not ignore the subplots that are supporting a bigger story in the series.  Bray is definitely setting up for a bigger story involving a shadowy group and the Diviners, which is strongly hinted at the end.

3. I very much enjoyed learning more about different characters past from Henry's life and family in New Orleans and how he came to be in New York City to Sam's quest to find his mother and his past with her, that is still very much a work in progress.

4. Also have to love the shout out in the book to Gemma Doyle.

To Read or Not to Read:
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