![]() ![]() The Book Eaters, or ‘eaters, live on the fringes of human society, and were it not for the special, fang-like teeth that they unsheathe before a literary meal, they. It’s a great way to help me keep things running on my blog if you’re already intrigued enough to make a purchase. The Book Eaters, Sunyi Dean’s debut, is a dark, haunting fantasy that follows Devon Fairweather, a Book Eater who subsists on ink and paper and the knowledge it provides her. I am an Amazon affiliate and earn a tiny commission for purchases made through the Amazon links in this post at no cost to you. 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. ![]()
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