So I finished The Diviners the other day. While I loved all the way to the end (and the last sentence, which literally changes the entire book that came before it), it ended up being the most political book I've ever made it through. Only you don't really notice it until the last sentence.
That being said, the structure and the writing were definitely the biggest and best parts of the book. I'm quite eager to see the "splash" it makes when it comes out in September. (Get it? Splash? Diviners?)
The book's layout, with a chapter focusing on an individual character and usually one scene or moment as the larger narrative unfolds in the background, felt a lot like what Grant Morrison's Seven Soldiers is turning out to be.
I didn't realize it at first, but not only has Morrison fashioned each of the seven mini-series that make up the project into stand-alone reads, he's also made each individual issue of each mini-series a stand-alone story as well. So, when it's all done, you'll not just have nine stand along stories (each mini plus the two bookends) but rather 30 individual adventure stories. Which is pretty remarkable. It's gotten me heavily interested in looking at the series as a whole and looking at each indiviual issue of the series as a stand-alone piece.
So I'll probably be taking up a lot of space here doing just that.
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