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The Diviners (2012)
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The Diviners is a 2012 young adult novel series by Libba Bray. Like her first hit series, the Gemma Doyle trilogy, The Diviners is a gothic historical novel and has been expanded into a series. Not to be confused with the 1974 novel of the same name by Margaret Laurence.Set in New York City during the 1920s, the novel chronicles the story of Evangeline "Evie" Fitzgerald O'Neill, a flapper with a heart of gold and a secret: she has the ability to read secrets and memories from personal objects, such as a hat or a glove. When Evie causes a scandal in her small hometown of Zenith, Ohio, her parents send her to live with her Uncle Will in New York. Uncle Will is the curator of The Museum of American Folklore, Superstition, and the Occult and a foremost scholarly expert on all things supernatural. When a series of murders take place that bear several occult characteristics, Uncle Will is called on to assist in the investigation - and Evie, sniffing out adventure, inserts herself at his side. But her strange power may be the secret to solving the murders.And through it all, something dark is rising.The novels: The Diviners Lair of Dreams Before the Devil Breaks You The King of Crows | |
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Hotter and Sexier | |
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Hotter and Sexier: Before The Devil Breaks You, in spades. Whilst previous books had had some passionate kissing and references to sex, over the course of BTDBY several of the central couples have sex: Memphis & Theta, Arthur & Mabel, David & Henry, and Sam & Evie. | |
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Ritual Magic | |
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Ritual Magic: The killer in the first book is working a major spell that involves a specific set of killings and ritual for the spells to work. | |
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Human Resources | |
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Human Resources: The Eye is powered by the troop of Diviner soldiers - including Evie's brother James - that have been sucked into it in an experiment during WWI. Marlowe also somehow uses captured Diviners for that purpose. | |
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Cruel and Unusual Death | |
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Cruel and Unusual Death: John Hobbes' victims. In book 2, Wae-Mae, who ran way after murdering the men who tricked her and destroyed her dreams, her brain addled by opium and syphilis, hid in the defunct Beach Pneumatic Train station, and was accidentally buried alive there. In books 2 and 3, several people are devoured by hungry ghosts. | |
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Deal with the Devil | |
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Deal with the Devil: Jake Marlowe apparently made one with the King of Crows; it's notes at one point that all his great successes started after the War, which was when he first made the breach between worlds that will enable the King of Crows to try to take over, and in the third book it's revealed he's receiving directions from him through The Eye. | |
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Parental Abandonment | |
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Parental Abandonment: Evie's parents ship her off to New York to live with her uncle. Theta was raised by a foster mother. Mabel's parents are present, but rarely have time for her. Memphis's mother passed away when he was young and his father left them to move to Chicago for work. Jericho's parents signed him over to the state when he was hospitalized. | |
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Hidden Depths | |
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Hidden Depths: Everyone, but Evie in particular is a notable example. She's the consummate flapper, and initially comes across as shallow, selfish, self-absorbed, frivolous, and (arguably) unlikable. But beneath the devil-may-care party girl attitude is a girl who is in turns extremely compassionate and deeply insecure, and who still grieves for the loss of her brother during the war. | |
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Abandoned Warehouse | |
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Abandoned Warehouse: Abandoned as in late at night and empty, but still in use. The site of Naughty John's second kill. | |
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Irishman and a Jew: A romantic variant with Evie and Sam An interesting version with Mabel and Ling, considering the fact that Mabel is half Jewish and Ling is half Irish. Whilst Sam and Evie are all about the personality clash, Mabel and Ling highlight some of the more political aspects: Mabel's been raised by firebrand socialist parents, and Ling's been raised by more conservative parents (although they are still a loving interracial couple who support their daughter's scientific aspirations.) Part of the reason that Ling subscribes the the "Pulling Yourself Up By the Bootstraps" mentality, though, is that she feels the unions don't recognise or fight for the Chinese. | |
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Bad Black Barf: The Proctor sisters tell Evie the gruesome backstory of the Bennington, which includes people suffering from the fever expelling "vomitus the color of black night." | |
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Love Dodecahedron | |
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Love Dodecahedron: Mabel likes Jericho, who likes Evie. Sam likes Evie, who likes Jericho. Mabel may also be starting to like the mysterious Arthur Brown. | |
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Affably Evil | |
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Affably Evil: Jake Marlowe seems like a swell guy, as well as being a brilliant scientist and inventor, but over the books is revealed by degrees to be one of the main villains. Not only is he a ruthless industrialist who runs a "company town" style mine, not only is he an ardent eugenicist who wants to purge America from the "lesser races" and their influence, he also has some sort of Deal with the Devil with the King of Crows (see below). In a Kick the Dog moment in the third book, he also ignores Ling trying to get into his Future of America Exhibition after promising her free entry tickets before. | |
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Biblical Bad Guy | |
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Biblical Bad Guy: John Hobbes is (or at least, wants to become) the antichrist. | |
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Not Listening to Me, Are You? | |
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Not Listening to Me, Are You?: This gem: | |
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'20s Bob Haircut | |
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'20s Bob Haircut: All the girls sport a bob, appropriate since it is set in 1920's. Mabel gets one at the end of The Diviners. | |
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Creepy Basement | |
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Creepy Basement: Knowles End. The whole house is creepy, but the basement is where the real horror happens. | |
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Cyborg | |
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Cyborg: Jericho has machinery inside him to help keep him alive, after suffering from infantile paralysis. | |
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Occult Detective | |
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Occult Detective: Evie, Will and Jericho investigating the Pentacle Killer Also known as Naughty John. | |
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Epigraph | |
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Epigraph Also, each book ends with an "Author's Note" with some details on the era. | |
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Roaring Twenties: This book is set in 1927,and Libba Bray made an amazingly good job in recreating the magic of the Jazz age with huge amounts of research. Everything from the famous stars, the racial tensions to the conventions of the '20s are contained or referenced in it. | |
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Voice of the Legion: The final form that the killer takes in the book comes with this type of voice. | |
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Alone with the Psycho | |
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Alone with the Psycho: Evie at the end of the first book is alone with John Hobbes after he takes out her friends. Also, Theta is trapped at one point with the killer getting close but she escapes. | |
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Yiddish as a Second Language | |
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Yiddish as a Second Language: A few words here and there in the first two books, but Yiddish has quite a place in Before The Devil Breaks You. Sam regularly peppers his conversation with Yiddish phrases, Mabel's dad has a few Yiddish terms of endearment for her, and even (nominal) Catholics Evie and Ling have picked up a few words. Fully Justified, given that fact that Yiddish culture was thriving in 1920's New York. | |
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Raven Hair, Ivory Skin | |
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Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: Theta, although some of that is just make-up, as she's described at least once as being tanned. Leading up to The Reveal in Before The Devil Breaks You that Theta is part Cherokee. | |
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Platonic Life-Partners | |
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Platonic Life-Partners: Henry and Theta. They live together, work together, and even try to pull off cons so that Henry can make it into the music industry together. | |
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Darkest Hour | |
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Darkest Hour: The ending of book 3 - unlike the previous two which ended on some note of victory against the Monster of the Week, the ending of the third book ramps things up dramatically towards The Day of Reckoning, with things looking very dire for our heroes. Evie has been disgraced in public by Sarah Snow and Jake Marlowe (who has also disgraced James in the process), and ends up quitting from her radio show. Sam has been captured by the Shadow Men; Memphis and Isaiah have to go on the run from them, as well. Jericho's location is still unknown, after he left the Marlowe estate, and it's uncertain how well he can make it without his serum. Theta had to quit the follies, and is still threatened by Roy. Mabel and uncle Will are dead (and knowing the Shadow Men, it's quite possible that so is Aunt Octavia). The public has turned against Diviners. The King of Crows is gaining power. The Time Is Now. | |
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Shown Their Work | |
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Shown Their Work: See Roaring Twenties above - Libba Bray has clearly done a lot of research on 1920s-era US (and especially New York), and those details are generously peppered throughout the books, to the degree that a character doesn't just drink a root beer, it's a Hires root beer. | |
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