'Raw and imaginative, this gritty, gothic anti-fairytale knows the truth: love will make a villain out of anyone.'-Olivie Blake, New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six Schwab, NYT bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie La Rue 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 fairy tales 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. Schwab, New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie La RueĪn NPR Best Sci Fi, Fantasy, & Speculative Fiction Book of 2022Ī Goodreads Best Fantasy Choice Award Nominee This book is impossible to put down, it is scrumptious, and while you can’t actually eat it, it will leave you feeling happily full like only the best meals can.

The Book Eaters is a dark and creepy modern fairy tale that explores love and power, traditions and what it takes to escape from them. When a valuable supply of medicine that can control them disappears, we see the lengths a mother will go to in order to save her son, as she breaks from the traditions and restrictions placed on her, to find who she is, and the happiness and love she has always longed for. Alongside the book eaters though are the problems, the mind eaters, who crave something more than a book to eat.

The boys and men dine on history and politics whilst little girls are fed fairy tales. Books are their sustenance and from them they gain the knowledge from which they build their lives. The characters in The Book Eaters however do.

I devour books, I describe them as delicious if I love them, but I’ve never eaten one.

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