The story delves right back in to a world where many diviners have outed themselves and their supernatural powers. LAIR OF DREAMS picks up a few months after the events of The Diviners, but don't expect a lot of exposition to catch you up. Not only does this book promote multiculturalism, it also teaches quite a bit about 1920s NYC.

The book's characters are extremely diverse: They're from a range of racial and ethnic heritages, including Chinese, Irish, Jewish, German, African-American, New Orleans Creole, as well as sexual orientations and religions. Teens drink in speakeasies and clubs (one character has a drinking problem), smoke cigarettes, and deal with heartbreaks and longing (one character vividly remembers his first love). But there's still a significant body count, as well as descriptions of widespread racism and anti-immigrant xenophobia.

The violence is slightly less creepy and frightening in this book than in its predecessor, and the villain is a bit less horrifying. As in the first book, which was released in 2012, this sequel is set in 1920s New York City and follows the group of young 'Diviners' (characters with supernatural abilities ranging from clairvoyance and healing to lucid dreaming and fire manipulation) as they struggle with a new villain who's killing people in their dreams. Parents need to know that Lair of Dreams is the long-awaited second installment in award-winning author Libba Bray's four-book urban paranormal Diviners series. Other characters smoke and drink, and the Chinatown opium dens are mentioned, as is a story about a young Chinese woman lured into the country under false pretenses and who becomes an opium-addicted prostitute.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide. Evie drinks a lot and often gets drunk, to the point that her friends believe she has a problem, because she can't go a night without getting drunk.

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