![]() The book eaters live in this world, but apart from it. It also doesn’t do justice to the complexity of this story. That description is slightly misleading, mostly because Devon discovers misery long before her son is born. ![]() TW: abuse in many varieties, violence/gore 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. Her brothers grew up feasting on stories of valor and adventure, and Devon – like all book eater women – was raised on a carefully curated diet of fairy tales and cautionary stories. ![]() Excerpt from the book jacket: 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… Devon is part of the Family, an old and reclusive clan of book eaters. ![]()
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