The King of Crows
Ratings32
Average rating3.7
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Ratings32
Average rating3.7
Led by a vision, the Diviners travel to Bountiful, Nebraska, where they must confront their greatest fears and learn to rely on one another in order to save the world from catastrophe.
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4 primary booksThe Diviners is a 4-book series with 4 primary works first released in 2012 with contributions by Libba Bray.
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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.
3.5
Kind of anticlimactic & not much happened honestly. Still loved the characters.
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.
