This means, of course, that over the course of their life they amass a ridiculously huge amount of knowledge. They have special book-teeth and everything! Different genres and prose styles have different flavours (which is the kind of tiny detail I adore) and a book eater can perfectly remember every word of every book they’ve ever eaten. The book eaters are a human-adjacent species who…literally eat books. Never has that quote seemed so apt as when reading this utterly marvelous tale of people who eat books! “Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.” ~Francis Bacon ~I wanna be a book eater too (sans the sexism!)
~mothers who burn the world down for their kids are A++ This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. I received this book for free from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. 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. Representation: Lesbian MC, asexual secondary character Genres: Fantasy, Contemporary or Urban Fantasy, Queer Protagonists
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