The Diviners / Libba Bray / 578 pages

Oh wow!  Can that Libba Bray write!  Historical fiction set in the 1920's and loaded with creepy, scary, horrific supernatural elements.  At times the slang of 17 year old flappers got on my nerves, but really the book is totally jake.  (Avoid that bathtub gin though) This book has definite crossover appeal.  Characters have various spiritual talents and psychic abilities, there's a mysterious government project, a brutal cult exemplifies the mentally of the single-minded, and all of the plot elements come together to save the world from the coming of the Beast.  But there's more...read the Diviners and I'm hoping for a sequel.