Spoilers, if you haven't read The Diviners.
Evie has told the world she is a Diviner. Now she is a radio star, attending swanky parties every night, living glamorously, but also trying to forget what happened the night John Hobbes almost killed her. And she is also trying to forget her feelings for Jericho, especially since her best friend, Mabel, is crazy over him.
Meanwhile, a sleeping sickness is reported in Chinatown, and it's spreading. After her friend comes down with it, Ling Chan, a dream walker, is determined to find him in the dream world and wake him back up. Instead she finds Henry, Theta's best friend, in the midst of his nightly search for his long lost love, Louis. Meeting in real life, Ling agrees to help Henry find Louis. But she soon begins to suspect that there is something more sinister at work in the dream world. Could it be related to the sleeping sickness?
Libba Bray manages to keep all the balls in the air as she juggles so many different storylines. One thing I really enjoyed was meeting Ling Chan after catching just glimpses of her in The Diviners. She makes a great addition to the burgeoning cast of Bray's world. I also enjoyed how she switched up the perspectives for this book. We still spend plenty of time with Evie, but lots of time with Henry, Mabel, Jericho, Sam, and others that we previously didn't. The one minor downside is that Lair of Dreams continues to set up the big battle that is brewing, and it still doesn't answer many questions, just poses new ones. But with the ending, I highly suspect that book three will give us all the answers we could want.
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