The Book Eaters

 

 I received a copy of this release from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

Title: The Book Eaters

Author: Sunyi Dean

Publisher: Tor Books

Release Date: 8.2.22

Publisher’s Summary 

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. To them, spy novels are a peppery snack; romance novels are sweet and delicious. Eating a map can help them remember destinations, and children, when they misbehave, are forced to eat dry, musty pages from dictionaries.

Devon is part of The Family, an old and reclusive clan of book eaters. 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.

But 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.

My Review

In The Book Eaters, female book eaters are rare and married off with the sole purpose of reproduction to continue their line. Book eater princess Devon gives birth to a mind eater but rather than give her son up to the Knights, she fights back against the system that oppresses her. On the run and in search of Redemption (a medicine to abate her son's hunger) she is pushed to her limits. This book is borderline horror so if you are squeamish this might not be the one for you, but if you like dark fairytales and strong, vengeful mothers, you should check this out.