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  • By: Libba Bray
  • Narrated by: January LaVoy
  • Length: 18 hrs and 14 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (372 ratings)
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The Diviners

By: Libba Bray
Narrated by: January LaVoy
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Summary

Audie Award Nominee, Best Teens Category, 2013

Something dark and evil has awakened....

Evie O'Neill has been exiled from her boring old hometown and shipped off to the bustling streets of New York City - and she is pos-i-tute-ly ecstatic. It's 1926, and New York is filled with speakeasies, Ziegfeld girls, and rakish pickpockets. The only catch is that she has to live with her uncle Will and his unhealthy obsession with the occult.

Evie worries her uncle will discover her darkest secret: a supernatural power that has only brought her trouble so far. But when the police find a murdered girl branded with a cryptic symbol and Will is called to the scene, Evie realizes her gift could help catch a serial killer.

As Evie jumps headlong into a dance with a murderer, other stories unfold in the city that never sleeps. A young man named Memphis is caught between two worlds. A chorus girl named Theta is running from her past. A student named Jericho is hiding a shocking secret. And unknown to all, something dark and evil has awakened....

This audiobook includes an introduction read by Libba Bray.

©2012 Libba Bray (P)2012 Listening Library

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Evil rising - only psychic jazz babies can save us

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This is awesome. There's a murderer in New York leaving gruesomely displayed corpses with arcane messages. Teenage flapper, Evie, has disgraced herself back home and been sent to stay with her uncle in Manhattan as a "punishment". He's an expert in the supernatural and is called in to help the police. Gradually we meet a cast of diverse characters who all have secrets in their past and some of them have powers they don't fully understand. 1920s New York comes alive around you. I love all the jazz age slang and historical scene setting which is never heavy handed and adds to the atmosphere of the story.

I thought it ended a little bit abruptly but is clearly setting up a series which will doubtless focus on different characters and I can't wait to listen to that too.

January La Voy is FABULOUS. She is almost as good as Rupert Degas which is the highest praise I can give to a reader. Her characterisation is spot on. Every character has a distinct and clear voice of their own. She only fails on an Irish accent but as it's an isolated incident I can forgive her.

One tiny tiny tiny quibble about something that wouldn't be a problem on the page. Right at the beginning, some words are spelt out on a ouija board and it's done letter by letter quite fast with no recap so I had to go back and listen a couple of times to get the sense. Derp!

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Chilling and Thrilling

o I finally read my first Libba Bray novel! I'm so glad I finally picked up something from this author, but I have to admit this was a lengthy story. Although, I didn't have to read it, because I was read to by the January LaVoy. LaVoy joins Rupert Degas as one of my favourite narrators.



Evie comes across as frivolous and superficial when the story begins. She's determined to live life to the fullest and is a compulsive liar, simply because she's living life at a thousand miles an hour. Why slow down and give a truthful, uncomplicated answer when you can reel off a fantastical tale. Initially, I was really disappointed that she was the main character, but slowly I started to sympathise. Sure she's enjoying life, but that's the superficial tale, and she believes it and others do...but what's really driving this desperate clutching at parties, people and distractions? What happened to her relationship with her parents after a family tragedy, and could this be at the heart of her lifestyle choice, her desperate attempts to be seen and recognized and praised?



Set in the roaring twenties (1920s) the dialogue is filled with slang and the obsession with celebrity rivals our modern times. I didn't expect the story to get more and more sinister. I thought the murders would be described in a detached way, after all there was just a slight hint at the supernatural to start with, but then all of a sudden there are gruesome murders and such gory, skin tingling, hair raising nastiness that I found myself creeped out!



The Diviners offers scares, thought-provoking sub-plots and wonderful characters. Evie is joined by such a wonderful cast of supporting characters that I'm desperate to get my hands on the sequel to find out what happens to everyone next. Domestic violence, racial discrimination and even a sci-fi element feature in the lives of her friends. I'll be counting down the days to the next installment :)

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A bit dissappointing

I loved the first half of the story but towards the end I started to lose interest as the story started to drag and become repetitive.

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Unfortunately not for me

Whilst I loved the setting and the time period this story just didn’t work for me. I found the heroine annoying, the story far too long and repetitive at times. Also the reveal for Jericho near the end just didn’t work for me either. Shame thought I would love this one

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My first full audiobook

I absolutely loved this! I read the book 2 years ago and decided to carry on with the series but thought I’d catch up with the first book via audiobook and I was surprised by how much I enjoyed it! The narrator was perfect and I didn’t feel disappointed in the slightest. However there were lots of parts in sure I missed but with it being a reread I just wanted to catch the major events of the book. I think audiobooks in general will have to be with books I’ve previously read but this was a great start! Surprised with how quick I got through it!

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Brilliant narration

Loved the story - you can see how much research went in to make authentic and the narrator was incredible 😊

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A surprise to be sure but a welcome one!

I'm a little biased when it comes to the YA category, to me it feels like it mostly gives an author the excuse to dumb down a good story but wow, this title had me second-guessing that in no time.

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Better than expected

Went on YouTube looking for audiobook recommendations and this book kept appearing so thought I'd give it a try. Narrator is amazing story is good drags you into the 1920's

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Loved it!!!

My daughter recommended this book. A complete new genre of book for me. I’m now addicted and can’t wait to start book two. I listened using audible driving to and from work, it was definitely the best part of my day.

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Several hours too long

I did enjoy the overall story but I feel like it took too long to get there. There were too many characters brought in that really didn’t need to be there and even when the main story ended the book continued far longer than needed.

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