![]() ![]() This is a story of escape, a savage mother's devotion and a queer love that will electrify readers looking for something beguiling, thrilling, strange and new. Sunyi Deans 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. 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. Living among humans and finding prey for her son, Devon seeks a cure for his hunger. ![]() 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. 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. The last of their lines, they exist on the fringes of society and subsist on a diet of stories and legends. Sunyi Dean’s The Book Eaters is a contemporary fantasy debut. Hidden across England and Scotland live six old Book Eater families. A gorgeous new fantasy horror - a book about stories and fairytales with family and love at its dark heart. ![]()
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