History Literature / TheDiviners2012

'''The Diviners demonstrates the following tropes:'''

* BadDreams: Besides their powers, incomprehensible prophetic dreams are the thing that tie all Diviners together.
** Lair of Dreams focuses on this, with people actually trapped in a nightmare.

* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler: Jericho]].

* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:Evie]].

* ShownTheirWork: See RoaringTwenties above - Libba Bray has clearly done a lot of research on 1920s-era US (and especially New York), and those details are generously peppered throughout the books, to the degree that a character doesn't just drink a root beer, it's a ''Hires root beer''. YourMileageMayVary on whether this is too much or not.

* DarkestHour: The ending of book 3 - unlike the previous two which ended on some note of victory against the MonsterOfTheWeek, the ending of the third book ramps things up dramatically towards TheDayOfReckoning, with things looking very dire for our heroes. [[spoiler: Evie has been disgraced in public by Sarah Snow and Jake Marlow (who has also disgraced James in the process), and ends up quitting from her radio show. Sam has been captured by the Shadow Men; Memphis and Isaiah have to go on the run from them, as well. Jericho's location is still unknown, after he left the Marlow estate, and it's uncertain how well he can make it without his serum. Theta had to quit the follies, and is still threatened by Roy. Mabel and uncle Will are ''dead'' (and knowing the Shadow Men, it's quite possible that so is Aunt Octavia). The public has turned against Diviners. The King of Crows is gaining power. The Time Is Now.]]

* BiblicalBadGuy

* CreepyBasement
* CreepyCemetery

* CruelAndUnusualDeath
* {{Cyborg}}: [[spoiler:Jericho]]

* DeadpanSnarker: Practically everybody except Jericho, and how.

* EldritchAbomination
* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt

* EvilIsVisceral

* HumanResources
* ICanSeeYou

* LetThePastBurn

* MalevolentArchitecture

* OldDarkHouse

* ReligionIsMagic

* ReligiousHorror

* AStormIsComing

''The Diviners'' is a 2012 young adult novel by Creator/LibbaBray. Like her first hit series, the Literature/GemmaDoyle trilogy, ''The Diviners'' is a gothic historical novel and due for expansion into a series. Not to be confused with the 1974 [[TheDiviners1974 novel]] of the same name by ''Creator/MargaretLaurence''.

%%* ApocalypseCult: The Brethren.
%%* ArcWords: ''The time is now.''
%%* ArtifactOfDoom: The house. It's more than haunted. It's alive.
%%* AuthorAppeal: Libba Bray is a self-admitted huge fan of horror.

%%* BetaCouple: Theta and Memphis.
%%* BiblicalBadGuy

%%* {{Bizarrchitecture}}: Knowles End.
%%* BlessedWithSuck: It's not glamorous being a Diviner.
%%* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: Evie, Theta (black hair), and Mabel, respectively.
%%* BodyHorror: The true form of the Beast.
%%* BrainlessBeauty: Evie isn't stupid, but to other people she comes across as shallow and unintelligent.
%%* BreakTheCutie: Oh, Evie. Poor Evie.
%%* BrokenBird: Little Betty Sue Bowers.
%%* BunnyEarsLawyer: Evie describes her uncle as "a book that occasionally remembers to put on a bowtie."

%%* CatchPhrase: ''Pos-i-tute-ly!''
%%* [[ChekhovsGun Chekhov's Gun]]: [[spoiler:Evie's coin pendant]].
%%* ConsummateLiar: Sam Lloyd.
%%* CoolTeacher: Uncle Will.
%%* CreepyBasement
%%* CreepyCemetery
%%* CreepyChild: Young John Hobbes.
%%* CruelAndUnusualDeath
%%* {{Cyborg}}: [[spoiler:Jericho]]
%%* TheDayOfReckoning

%%* DeadpanSnarker: Practically everybody except Jericho, and how.

%%* EldritchAbomination
%%* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt
%%* {{Epigraph}}
%%-->''And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,''
%%-->''slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?''
%%--->"The Second Coming," William Butler Yeats
%%* EvilIsVisceral
%%* FilleFatale: Evie, and how! And Theta as well.
%%* FishOutOfWater: Evie was this in Zenith. In NYC, Mabel feels this way intensely.
%%* TheFlapper: Evie.
%%* TheGenerationGap
%%* AGodAmI
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%%[[AC:I-A-M-T-H-E-B-E-A-S-T]]\\
%%[[AC:T-H-E-D-R-A-G-O-N-O-F-O-L-D]]
%%* HauntedHouse: Knowles End, and how.

%%* HumanResources
%%* ICanSeeYou

%%* LetThePastBurn

%%* MalevolentArchitecture

%%* NiceHat: The girls do love their hats.

%%* OldDarkHouse

%% * RavenHairIvorySkin: Theta. Leading up to TheReveal in ''Before The Devil Breaks You'' that Theta is [[spoiler: part Cherokee.]]
%%* ReligionIsMagic

%%* ReligiousHorror

%%* SacredScripture: The Book of the Brethren.
%%* SacrificialLamb: [[spoiler:Gabriel]].
%%* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:Evie]].
%%* SmokingIsCool: TruthInTelevision for the Twenties.

%%* AStormIsComing
%%* TheStoic: Jericho. The subtext in his backstory indicates he [[spoiler:could be susceptible to berserker-rages if he's not careful]].

%%* [[DidTheResearch Did Her Research]]

%%-->[[AC:I-S-T-A-N-D-A-T-T-H-E-D-O-O-R-A-N-D-K-N-O-C-K]]
%%-->[[AC:I-A-M-T-H-E-B-E-A-S-T]]
%%-->[[AC:T-H-E-D-R-A-G-O-N-O-F-O-L-D]]

* ActivistFundamentalistAntics: Sarah Snow and her supporters

* BiggerBad: The Man in the Stovepipe Hat

* RavenHairIvorySkin: Theta. Leading up to TheReveal in ''Before The Devil Breaks You'' that Theta is [[spoiler: part Cherokee.]]

* TwentiesBobHaircut: All the girls, but Mabel gets one at the end of ''The Diviners.''

%%* PlatonicLifePartners: Henry and Theta.

%%* RavenHairIvorySkin: Theta.

* TwentiesBobHaircut: All the girls, but Mabel gets one at the end of ''The Diviners.''

* ActivistFundamentalistAntics: A major theme, particularly in ''Before the Devil Breaks You,'' with the fundamentalist represented by Sarah Snow and her supporters and the activists represented by Mabel and the [[spoiler: Secret Six.]]

%%* CannibalismSuperpower

%%* TwentiesBobHaircut

%%* ActivistFundamentalistAntics

* MatzoFever: A running theme among the couples in the series. Most prominently featured in Sam and Evie, but there's also Mabel's parents, [[spoiler: Will and Rotke]], [[spoiler: Henry and David]], and [spoiler: (probably) Arthur and Mabel.]]

* IrishmanAndAJew Evie and Sam, in a romantic variant

%% Tropes that break the rule against {{Zero Content Example}}s have been commented out. Please fix said examples by providing context that explains how this trope is used before uncommenting them.

->'''Jericho''': So I shot the man in the back.
->'''Evie''': Interesting.
->'''Jericho''': And then I took his head, which I keep under my bed.
->'''Evie''': Of course.
->'''Jericho''': Evie. Evie!
->'''Evie''':Yes?
->'''Jericho''': You're not listening.
->'''Evie''': Oh, I pos-i-tute-ly am, Jericho!
->'''Jericho''': What did I just say?
->'''Evie''': Well, whatever it was, I'm sure it was very, very smart.