Female book eaters are groomed from the moment they are born, beginning with the type of books they consume. Devon decides she will do anything to protect her second child and that means escaping from the book eaters.īook eaters live a cult-like existence, and themes of oppression dominate their story. They take her child and force her to have another, but if the first child was perfect, the second is a monster, a mind eater who consumes minds instead of feasting on books. As a woman, Devon is controlled, coerced, and at times, beaten into submission. She is told that she is lucky and blessed, yet as she enters her first marriage, a grim reality begins to take shape. Devon, the Fairweathers’ prized daughter, is raised on a generous helping of lies. The number of women is dwindling, and they are becoming precious commodities among the families. They have established estates where they eat dusty pages and drink ink tea, but the future of the book eaters is bleak.

It’s a dynamic book, and dare I say there is something for everyone in this dystopian story that evolves into an undercover mission and is topped with a sprinkling of horror.īook eaters are humanoid creatures living in secret and consuming knowledge from the books they eat.

I was not expecting a story about book-eating creatures to pull a Handmaid’s Tale and push a desperate mother to the edge. The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean is by far the strangest book I’ve read in 2022, and I mean that in the best way possible.

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