![]() ![]() 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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