Lair of Dreams
Ratings68
Average rating4
SO SO SO GOOD!. Love the characters in this series and love the timeline it is in. So many creepy elements but loved the build up. I really don't know why this is considered young adult but this is definitely good.
An oddly slow read. The setting feels distracting - more like “I'll just constantly mention the slang and clothes and such” than it being subtle and established somehow? Bugged me about the first book, too. I kept wanting to give up and dnf both.
Opnieuw 5 sterren voor het audioboek! Wat een fantastische verteller.
Het verhaal zelf vond ik ook weer een toppertje, heerlijk griezelig met een serieuze portie melancholie erdoorheen geweven. Enige minpunt is misschien dat het wat te lang werd uitgesponnen.
De grootste aantrekkingskracht blijft echter toch wel de atmosfeer en de diverse cast aan personages. Ik had al een grote hekel aan Evie in het eerste boek en mijn minachting voor haar werd in dit vervolg absoluut bevestigd. Man, is dat een nutteloze, egoïstische trien, lol. Maar de andere personages, zoals bijvoorbeeld Henry, zijn dan weer kostbare engeltjes die je zo in je hart sluit.
De wereld van de Diviners is er absoluut eentje waarin ik graag vertoef en ik kijk reikhalzend uit naar boek 3!
Usually with series, I stop reading halfway through the second book and then stop; there's something about the 2nd book curse in series that gets me. That was totally not the case for Lair of Dreams. I didn't love it as much as I loved the first book, but it was still a solid read that I very much enjoyed. If you have not started this series, what are you doing??
While this is probably not the best read in the current climate (it involves hysteria over a mysterious illness) I still enjoyed it immensely. The narrator of the audiobook (January LaVoy) is honestly one of the best I've ever heard. Onto Number 3!
Ooh this was good. I loved that Ling was a fully formed character in this one. She's the best! I'm excited all the characters are starting to talk to each other and form a Diviner Dream Team. ♥️
This was better than the first book, in my opinion. I loved the characters even more in this one because I finally felt connected to them and I also loved the new characters that were introduced to us. I read this while I was listening to the audiobook and, once again, I fell in love with Libba Bray's writing as well as January LaVoy's voice acting that it made me fully immersed in the story. The reason why I took off a star is because the first half was a bit slow for me but when things started to pick up, it was a swell time.
SCREAM I loved this so much!! For me personally I preferred it to the first because it was less scary-scary and more about the characters' fears/desires. I also loved the building suspense about Project Buffalo, getting real X-Filesy up in here. And I loved getting more of the characters from the first book as well as the introduction of Ling. (Badass disabled Chinese-American possibly-queer character in a genre novel, what upppp)
But now I have to wait for book 3?! Noooo
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upon re-read: still heckin great