If you would like to see photos of some of the locations which feature in The Book Eaters, please click here or copy/paste (this link DOES contain spoilers). I know that this book will not be for everyone, and that is completely okay! I hope your next book pleases you better <3 This is not a novel I ever thought I'd write, but then this isn't the life I ever thought I'd lead, so maybe those things go hand in hand? Hope you enjoy, Dear Reader. I'm super slow, sorry! I wrote this book while crawling through a very difficult period of my life, and though it is far from perfect I am still really happy to have seen it across the finish line. The "read" dates are roughly the amount of time it took to write, revise, and hand in my completed edits on it.
This is not the first novel I've written, only the first I managed to get published, and I did not start out in short fiction - I only began writing shorts a couple of years ago. That would feel very strange! I'm just filling out this review form because YIKES, I have a novel on Goodreads!
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.Don't worry, I'm not going to star my own book.
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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