Readers shouldn't even think of picking it up until they've re-read 2017's Before the Devil Breaks You (or at last read a review or summary) it dives right in and goes nonstop for more than 500 pages. Libba Bray's sprawling finale in her decade-long Diviners saga is a massive epic full of emotional highs and lows, and a thought-provoking look at 1920s America. Along the way, the three groups of Diviners encounter various obstacles, including the Great Flood of 1927, the KKK, a nationwide hunt for them, and the King of Crows' army of ravenous undead.

The Diviners are forced to separate and go on the run, but they plan to meet up in the Midwest, where a young teen who has spoken to Isaiah in visions says she knows how to defeat the titular King of Crows. Characters are killed and the Diviners are blamed, so Marlowe convinces now-skeptical New Yorkers to consider the Diviners dangerous, offering a reward for their capture. Sam is kidnapped by agents working with Jake Marlowe to track down Diviners. THE KING OF CROWS picks up immediately after the events of Before the Devil Breaks You, following the entire crew of Diviners: object-reader Evie Sam, who has powers of persuasion and invisibility fire-starter dancer Theta poet and musician Memphis his clairvoyant little brother Isaiah lucid dreamers Henry and Ling and superstrong, genetically modified Jericho. Not only does this book promote tolerance, inclusion, and diversity, but it teaches a lot about history, who writes it, and how it's interpreted. The book's characters hail from several racial and ethnic heritages, sexual orientations, religions, and geographic backgrounds. An army of the undead destroys entire towns, and many major characters are seriously injured, incapacitated, or mortally wounded. There's quite a bit of violence and death in this final book, with a couple of deaths knocking the wind out of readers.

This installment continues to follow the life-and-death journey of the young 'Diviners,' who finally have a plan to track down the ultimate supernatural Big Bad of the story, while avoiding both federal agents and the multimillionaire villain trying to capture them.

Parents need to know that The King of Crows is the fourth and final installment in Libba Bray's bestselling series, which started with 2012's The Divinersand continued with Lair of Dreams and Before the Devil Breaks You. Adults are known to smoke cigarettes and cigars.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide. More jokes about wanting to drink than actual drinking in this installment, although folks drink at secret clubs.

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