The fifth book on my quest to read as many TAYSHAS books as I can was The Diviners by Libba Bray. It takes place in New York City in the 1920's. The book centers around a young woman named Evie, who is a diviner. Her "special power" is that she can read a person's secrets from objects that they own. In fact, it is because of this power that Evie is sent to live with her Uncle Will in New York. Uncle Will runs a museum of supernatural things.
Strange murders are occurring in New York, and they are linked to a religious "cult." Evie and her uncle help the police solve the murders. That's the basic story. It was fantastic.
What I didn't care for was the subplot involving Memphis and his brother, Isaiah. I get that the author had to show that there are other diviners so that she can sell a sequel, but this subplot had NOTHING to do with the rest of the book. Easily, a couple of hundred pages could've been shaved off of the book had they left this out.
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