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|title=Lair of Dreams
|author=Libba Bray
|isbn= 978-1907410420
|website= https://libbabray.wordpress.com/
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After a supernatural showdown with a supernatural serial killer, Evie O'Neill has outed revealed herself as a Diviner. With her uncanny amazing ability to read discover people's secrets, she's a media darling. It seems like everyone's in love with has become New York City's "Sweetheart Seer," the latest It Girl – their 'Sweetheart Seer'. Everyone seems to be eager to get to know this new media darling. But , while Evie is enjoying the high liferevels in her newfound fame, her fellow Diviners Henry DuBois and Ling Chan will fight have to keep hide their powers secret. But, something is dark and malevolent is claiming people in their sleep, twisting their dreams into nightmares and imprisoning their consciousness inside their unconscious bodies. And, lurking in the background, a man in a stovepipe hat is planning something sinister with a truly massive impact on the world...
A malevolent force is at large, infecting people's dreams and claiming victims in their sleep. At the edge of it all lurks a man in a stovepipe hat who has plans of nightmare proportions… Fair warning: a lot of the book will not make sense if you have not read its predecessor, [[The Diviners by Libba Bray|The Diviners]]. I, not having done so, learned this the hard way when I first opened this book up. Also, it is a monster read, being over 600 pages long, so you'll have to persevere. It's worth it.
The eight teenage protagonists are well written and varied. First of them is Evie, a celebrity diviner with the power to see the past when in contact with certain objects. She's a very extroverted party-girl, who often wakes up in her hotel room hungover and leaning over a toilet bowl. There is a significant amount of romantic tension between her and Jericho Jones, a quieter, more philosophical boy who is kept alive by some sort of blue serum. In order to gain publicity, Evie pretends to be engaged to Sam Lloyd, a womanising con-man with the power to render himself and anything he touches invisible to certain people. Supporting Evie are Mabel, a socialist union activist who has the power to heat her hands when she becomes agitated, and Theta, a Broadway musical actress. Theta lives with her best friend Henry, a closet homosexual musician from Missouri, who seeks both his long-lost lover Louis and that his works get published. He has the power to walk in other people's dreams, much like Ling, a half-Chinese, half-Irish cripple who comes off the page as being a lot like Dr Gregory House, seeing only the logical and realistic. The last, but not least, character is Memphis, a black teenage poet with the power to heal the afflicted, and a dream to have his works recognised and published.