The Book Eaters
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Katie Erich
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Sunyi Dean
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THE NO. 2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
‘I devoured this’ V.E. Schwab
‘A vampire-themed Handmaid’s Tale, with effective thrills that are intensified by social commentary’ Guardian
A gorgeous new fantasy horror – a book about stories and fairy tales with family and love at its dark heart…
Hidden across England and Scotland live six old Book Eater families.
The last of their lines, they exist on the fringes of society and subsist on a diet of stories and legends.
Children are rare and their numbers have dwindled, so when Devon Fairweather’s second child is born a dreaded Mind Eater – a perversion of her own kind, who consumes not stories but the minds and souls of humans – she flees before he can be turned into a weapon for the family… or worse.
Living among humans and finding prey for her son, Devon seeks a cure for his hunger. But time is running out – for her family want her back, and with every soul her son consumes he loses a little more of himself…
This is a story of escape, a mother’s savage devotion and a queer love that will electrify readers looking for something beguiling, thrilling, strange and new.
Perfect for fans of Neil Gaiman, Susanna Clarke, and Let the Right One In
©2022 Sunyi Dean (P)2022 HarperCollins Publishers LimitedKritikerstimmen
"Some novels are intended to be devoured in one sitting. Such is the case with Sunyi Dean’s The Book Eaters. Innovative, unique, poignant and told with a voice as original as the story itself. I finished this novel in that one sitting, yet I’ll be pondering it for a long time to come. This is the debut of a new master of the modern fantasy. Don’t miss it." (James Rollins, #1 New York Times bestseller of The Starless Crown)
"Raw and imaginative, this gritty, gothic anti-fairytale knows the truth: love will make a villain out of anyone." (Olivie Blake, author of The Atlas Six)
"Sunyi Dean’s The Book Eaters is a darkly sweet pastry of a book about family, betrayal and the lengths we go to for the ones we love. Great reading for a rainy morning, with tea or coffee on, a cat in your lap, and nowhere to be but lost in a delicious modern fairy tale." (Christopher Buehlman, author of The Blacktongue Thief)
We have universal truths about women‘s experiences and their coming of age, set in a parallel society that could be a sect, migrants keeping to themselves in their new country or anything else really. The fantastic aspects sharpened that, but were not really necessary, which irritated me a little.
The book was a messy harsh experience for me that really got me thinking. „Affection made cruelty only rueful“. „Love is not inherently good“. Too close for comfort but really damn good.
The audio book version was OK. The narrator fitting to the British setting and also to the MCs voice when she was older. All in all it did not really pull me in.
The quotes from e.g. fairy tales in the beginning of the chapters where a really nice touch.
A women’s story, heartfelt, with a little fantasy dusting
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