![]() ![]() It ticked so many boxes for me, both on a structural and emotional level, and I’ll try to peel them apart below here, but I can only apologize if I fail. ![]() I’ll be buying every special edition of this book that I can get my hands on. This is a genre-blending book that’ll stay a favorite of mine for years to come. ![]() Her brothers grow up feasting on stories of valor and adventure, and Devon-like all other book eater women-is raised on a carefully curated diet of fairytales and cautionary stories.īut real life doesn’t always come with happy endings, as Devon learns when her son is born with a rare and darker kind of hunger-not for books, but for human minds. Eating a map can help them remember destinations, and children, when they misbehave, are forced to eat dry, musty pages from dictionaries.ĭevon is part of The Family, an old and reclusive clan of book eaters. To them, spy novels are a peppery snack romance novels are sweet and delicious. ![]() Out on the Yorkshire Moors lives a secret line of people for whom books are food, and who retain all of a book’s content after eating it. It’s a story of motherhood, sacrifice, and hope of queer identity and learning to accept who you are of gilded lies and the danger of believing the narratives others create for you. Sunyi Dean’s The Book Eaters is a contemporary fantasy debut. ![]()
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