The King of Crows
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The finale to The Diviners from author, Libba Bray.
After the horrifying explosion that claimed one of their own, the Diviners find themselves wanted by the US government, and on the brink of war with the King of Crows.
While Memphis and Isaiah run for their lives from the mysterious Shadow Men, Isaiah receives a startling vision of a girl, Sarah Beth Olson, who could shift the balance in their struggle for peace. Sarah Beth says she knows how to stop the King of Crows-but, she will need the Diviners' help to do it.
Elsewhere, Jericho has returned after his escape from Jake Marlowe's estate, where he has learned the shocking truth behind the King of Crow's plans. Now, the Diviners must travel to Bountiful, Nebraska, in hopes of joining forces with Sarah Beth and to stop the King of Crows and his army of the dead forever.
But as rumors of towns becoming ghost towns and the dead developing unprecedented powers begin to surface, all hope seems to be lost.
In this sweeping finale, The Diviners will be forced to confront their greatest fears and learn to
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The Diviners is a 4-book series with 4 released primary works first released in 2012 with contributions by Libba Bray.
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I have loved the Diviners series, written by one of the best YA writers in the game, until this concluding book. I frequently book-talk the first book and it's such a great sell - super creepy horror, hilarious 20's slang & bustling NY setting, great diverse characters with modern parallels - and each book in the series has gotten better despite getting longer, but sadly not today, Satan. Bray is bogged down by hammering home the important parallels of our racist/xenophobic/homophobia/etc phobic/founding original sins as a county to our modern political climate...repetitively for 550 small-fonted pages. It doesn't zip, the characters don't feel as vital as they once did, and the creeping horror is revealed to be....literally nothing. Nothing much happens other than some too-convenient setups to move characters around the country to get together to fight in the final scenes. Though her writing alone almost earns this bloat, I wish her editors had truly cut this down to a tight 300 or so and pushed her for some plot/character rethinks. I'm a loving audience for this book AND an emotional reader and even I wasn't moved by some of the tragedy, where normally I would have been sobbing. With love, I'm disappointed.
It was another enjoyable ride, but I'm glad it ended with this one. Series fatigue was setting in. My favourite of the series is still book 1.
Ik weet niet wat ik moet zeggen. Ik ben precies wel ontgoocheld over dit sluitstuk van The Diviners reeks.
Het was langdradig en repetitief en ik had moeite om er mijn aandacht bij te houden. Er gebeurt bijna niks, behalve doelloos ronddwalen. De ontknoping naar het einde van het boek toe was te voorspelbaar en het grote gevecht was teleurstellend en te gemakkelijk.
De personages blijven het grote licht van deze serie, maar in dit boek was het precies alsof er een waas over hen ging en ze veel van hun kleur hadden verloren.
Ik ben al bij al wel tevreden met hoe het uiteindelijk afloopt, maar ik had er toch meer van verwacht, vooral gezien ik alle voorgaande boeken in de reeks 5 sterren gaf.
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