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pmoreside's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
hopeful
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
dogmom198611's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
joana_stormblessed's review against another edition
5.0
The grand finale...
I won't say much because I do not want to spoil the rest of the books, but this was really good. I had a few issues with the pacing, but the characters, the plot and the atmosphere more than made up for it.
I won't say much because I do not want to spoil the rest of the books, but this was really good. I had a few issues with the pacing, but the characters, the plot and the atmosphere more than made up for it.
ergative's review against another edition
5.0
Just a great series all around. I really, really enjoyed this so much.
smartinez9's review against another edition
4.0
Eight years after first reading The Diviners, I’m not entirely sure how to feel. Not my favorite of the series—the pacing was strange, there was significant waffling about Jericho I did not need, and the ending felt a bit anticlimactic. That said, it is still one of the most brilliant series I have ever come across, and will always be a favorite. Libba Bray is a genius, and I am very grateful to her for not repeating the end of Gemma Doyle and ripping out my heart.
le_corbeau_romantique's review against another edition
This series has meant so much to me in my 20s. I read the first book when I moved away from home right after college, and now I'm closing my 20s reading the last book a few months before entering a new decade. I have reread these books more than I have ever reread any book (including Jane Austen). I'm probably going to be in the minority, and I don't know if I'm just grieving and need time and space for another read of Book 4. So I will emotionally vomit everything going through my head right after finishing this book.
First of all the positives: the gang's all back together, Sam + Evie, the Circus, The Harlem Haymakers, Theta, Bill + Samson's ending, Jericho's character development, Ling + Alma, Isaiah's twists and turns, and the power development in the Dead.
So here are the things that are not so great:
- Anticlimactic: It was slow with a lot of padding (the Voice of America- overly repetitive and didactic within the story. Even though I fully agree with these ideas, they became filler due to the repetition. Also, Memphis was unnecessarily risky while on the run!).
- Less romance: This series has EVERYTHING and has always balanced all of these elements so well.
- Less Sam (see above)
- I still don't feel closure with Mabel.
- A lot of jumps: A lot of the action was fast-forwarded like the old Underground Railroad tunnel under the museum ---don't stop telling the story when a ghost attacks---, the Proposal, Roy's lack of comeuppance, the actual demise of the King of Crows.
- Small, personal issue: I HATE anything with animals in it because I'm worried the entire time about them to the point I can't enjoy anything. Samson about killed me in a previous book, and there's even more critters to worry about in this installment (dog, cats, a frog).
- Little to no character development for Ling: She's back to being who she was when we first met her (in the interaction with other characters except with Alma and the ending bridesmaid remark).
- Sarah Beth= OBVIOUS
- The book ends with the remaining group listening to a Nazi/Hitler rally on the radio with nothing else said. (...Does this mean we'll see them battling real, living evil in a WWII series of short stories while they fight crime as they figure out how to work without powers?! I know they didn't defeat all evil in this book, this action made the series feel unresolved. Need to think more on this....)
I will eventually reread this book as I have the rest of the series, and maybe my thoughts will change as they did when I had my first reread of Book 3, but now, it's too raw, and I'm too busy daydreaming my own endings for these characters I grew with and love.
On a side note, the audiobooks are some of the best I've ever listened to.
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First of all the positives: the gang's all back together, Sam + Evie, the Circus, The Harlem Haymakers, Theta, Bill + Samson's ending, Jericho's character development, Ling + Alma, Isaiah's twists and turns, and the power development in the Dead.
So here are the things that are not so great:
- Anticlimactic: It was slow with a lot of padding (the Voice of America- overly repetitive and didactic within the story. Even though I fully agree with these ideas, they became filler due to the repetition. Also, Memphis was unnecessarily risky while on the run!).
- Less romance: This series has EVERYTHING and has always balanced all of these elements so well.
- Less Sam (see above)
- I still don't feel closure with Mabel.
- A lot of jumps: A lot of the action was fast-forwarded like the old Underground Railroad tunnel under the museum ---don't stop telling the story when a ghost attacks---, the Proposal, Roy's lack of comeuppance, the actual demise of the King of Crows.
- Small, personal issue: I HATE anything with animals in it because I'm worried the entire time about them to the point I can't enjoy anything. Samson about killed me in a previous book, and there's even more critters to worry about in this installment (dog, cats, a frog).
- Little to no character development for Ling: She's back to being who she was when we first met her (in the interaction with other characters except with Alma and the ending bridesmaid remark).
- Sarah Beth= OBVIOUS
- The book ends with the remaining group listening to a Nazi/Hitler rally on the radio with nothing else said. (...Does this mean we'll see them battling real, living evil in a WWII series of short stories while they fight crime as they figure out how to work without powers?! I know they didn't defeat all evil in this book, this action made the series feel unresolved. Need to think more on this....)
I will eventually reread this book as I have the rest of the series, and maybe my thoughts will change as they did when I had my first reread of Book 3, but now, it's too raw, and I'm too busy daydreaming my own endings for these characters I grew with and love.
On a side note, the audiobooks are some of the best I've ever listened to.
alaskanfae's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
1.5
annamickreads's review against another edition
4.0
Please don't look at me right now I'm VERY fragile