Lair of Dreams (The Diviners, #2) in Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge

Aug 11, 2016 Renata rated it it was amazing

Shelves: fiction, fantasy, ya, historical-fiction, we-need-diverse-books, audiobook

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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Mar 22, 2017 Felicia rated it really liked it

Shelves: ya, youngins, 2017, not-dead, not-a-man

Really amazing read in the YA genre. I love Libba Bray's writing and that she doesn't ignore the ugliness of America's history. When Ling and Memphis exchanged that glance I got chills. Just because you simply don't get that kind of acknowledgment from a white author, let alone a white YA author. Not a lot happens in this book and it is very much a whooping book, however, the characters are so interesting and fleshed out that I was quite entertained. I mean Henry? Come on. He's my all time favor ...more

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May 20, 2014 Kate McCartney rated it it was amazing

Shelves: supernatural, fantasy, friendship, audiobook, teen-fiction, historical-fiction, amazing-women, humor, horror, 2015

One of the most amazing readers did the audiobook of this!

There were a lot of characters to follow, I loved them all, but it did get confusing at times. A few stories kind of got dropped, but I am assuming that they will get picked back up in the next book (*crosses finger* please let there me another book and please don't make me wait so long). Libba Bray is one of my favorite voices in YA lit. She is so funny. She builds her worlds and characters so well, I feel like I am there and with them.

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