



Rather their story opens another mysterious thread that will likely begin to take shape in Bray’s next installment. Making room for the new Diviners does not mean that Evie, Sam, Jericho, or Memphis suffer from a lack of attention. The characters, divided for a majority of the first half of the book, organically find their way together against a common threat as the dreamworld and reality begin to mix. Lair of Dreams‘s gray man, the nightmarish man in the stovepipe hat, is just as terrifying as Bray’s first villain, Naughty John and will have you questioning whether you should be reading this book right before you take your own trip into the dreamworld. Where the second installment truly succeeds is the mastery of weaving 10 narratives together, all while keeping two overarching mysteries looming overhead.

Evie’s decision to step out into the world as the apple of New York’s superstitious eye, keeps the lead of Bray’s Diviners mixed up in a mess of her own doing while more threatening circumstances haunt others this time around. Lair of Dreams spend little time catching readers up and instead chooses to utilize every last page to advance new stories. government covering up and can it explain where Sam’s mother went to after Project Buffalo? Dream walkers slip into the world of other’s dreams and they may be the only people who can find a way to end the nightmares that call the resting city to “Dream with me…”Īs one threat crosses over from the dreamworld into the real one, another conspiracy unfolds in the basement of The Museum of American Folklore, Superstition, and the Occult. The familiar characters Evie, Sam, Jericho, Mabel, Theta, and Memphis are joined by a new Diviner, Ling Chan, a dream walker who connects with a familiar character, Henry, in the dreamworld. Picking up shortly after the events of The Diviners, the second installment does not waste time setting up a frightening new epidemic, a sleeping sickness, that is taking the city under its spell. Everyone wants a glimpse at the people who can see beyond the veil of the American dream, but a menacing nightmare is waiting for them to close their eyes. New York City is swept up by the lure of Diviners and America’s Sweetheart Seer, Miss Evie O’Neill is at the forefront of the media frenzy.
