![]() ![]() 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.Īt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. ![]() ![]() 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. ![]() A starred review from Publishers Weekly said, 'Dean’s unputdownable debut gives the phrase voracious reader a new, very literal meaning'. Reviews of her 2022 debut, a gothic fantasy titled The Book Eaters, were largely favorable. 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. Book reviewers inspired her to try writing. 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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