Book Review – The King of Crows

The King of Crows is the most epic conclusion to a book series. I couldn’t put it down, yet didn’t want it to end. Libba Bray, please, please, please give us more stories with these characters! FANS OF LIBBA BRAY: which Bray book should I read next? I must read them all! The King of Crows is the fourth book in The Diviners series, so if you haven’t read the other books STOP READING THIS REVIEW. Spoilers below!!

About The Book 📚

Title: The King of Crows (The Diviners #4)

Author: Libba Bray

Publication Date: February 4, 2020

Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Paranormal

My Review

“Stories were power. And whoever controlled the story controlled everything. A story could bring people together, or it could tear them apart. It could spread like a sickness, infecting people. It could lead them into battle or shake them into seeing what they had refused to see before.”

› New York City, 1927, 8 friends with divine powers continue their mission to save the world. Evie, Sam, Jericho, Theta, Memphis, Isaiah, Henry, and Ling come face-to-face with the King of Crows. Isaiah has met a girl in his dreams named Sarah Beth who says they must come to Bountiful, Nebraska so they can defeat the King of Crows together. The people of NYC think the Diviners are responsible for the ghosts attacking the city. At the public memorial for Sarah Snow, the Diviners are forced to split up. Ling and Jericho join Alma and the Harlem Haymakers as they travel across the country. Henry, Bill, and Memphis find refuge on a train. Theta, Isaiah, and Evie head to Marlowe’s estate to save Sam. As they flee NYC, heading to Bountiful, they are hunted by The Shadow Men and The King of Crows.

“People you loved could be gone in a breath. So why didn’t knowing that make it any easier to be vulnerable? To tell people that you loved them, that you were hurting, that you were afraid, or that, sometimes, at five in the morning, you were so alone in your own skin that you watched the weak light play across the ceiling, willing it toward dawn? Or perhaps no one else felt that way, and Evie truly was alone.”

› I love everything about this book. I love the settings, plot, characters, ending…I wish I could give it 10 stars. I laughed, I cried. This series took me on a journey of emotions.

“It was always somebody’s turn. The Irish, the Italians, the Jews, the Negroes or Chinese or Mexicans. A great wheel of bigotry, ever turning. Who got to decide what made somebody an American? America, the ideal of it at least, was its own form of elusive magic.”

› This isn’t just a supernatural story about young people with powers, it talks about sexism, racism, colonization, domestic violence, death, grief. The darkness is balanced with hope, love, and friendship.

› Final Thoughts
• The King of Crows is about betrayal, hope, light vs dark, truth, and self-acceptance. HIGHLY RECOMMEND this to readers 14+, I think this series has a little bit of something for everyone.