For large-cast books, it really doesn’t get better than this, honestly. There are so many lovely couples to ship and so many lovely friendships to support.It shows a glimmer of the Harlem music scene, African-American poetry, blues music from the South, and more, and it’s all done SO WELL. Poetry and music play a large role with some of the main characters.Reading this series is like being transported to another world entirely and Libba Bray is deserving all of the respect for her writing alone. It’s incredibly well-written, like gives me chills well-written.There’s lots of fake-dating, surprisingly, and I know that gets a lot of you guys going 😉.There’s dream-walking? Albeit only in book two forward, but you’ve got to get far enough to appreciate how incredible this plot line is.We have…the cocky male who’s a softie beneath layers of arrogance (Sam), the fun and quirky main character (Evie), her strong and incredible best friend (Theta), and Theta’s best friend who is the most kind-hearted in the whole series (Henry). It has an absolutely splendid cast of characters.It’s paranormal historical fiction! So, that means if you like historical fiction and you like fantasy, you’d like this wonderful combination of the two!.Moreover, it addresses topics like eugenics, which are barely even addressed today. This succeeds at showing the multitude of lives that have lived in America for so long: it wasn’t just straight white people in 1920 like the media would tell us. We have characters from all backgrounds, including LGBT+ characters of many different kinds. It’s an incredibly diverse look at 1920s America, particularly New York City.In lieu of writing a review for King of Crows, since it’s kind of overdue at this point, I’m going to list ten reasons why you should read the Diviners series, one of my all-time favorite series.

By Book Hugger on Apin Historical Fiction, Paranormal, Recommendations

The diviners series