The Book Eaters: the SUNDAY TIMES bestselling gothic fantasy horror – a debut to sink your teeth into

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The Book Eaters: the SUNDAY TIMES bestselling gothic fantasy horror – a debut to sink your teeth into

The Book Eaters: the SUNDAY TIMES bestselling gothic fantasy horror – a debut to sink your teeth into

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Devon caught his wrist, wrenched the door open, and shoved him in. The vicar wasn’t frail but Devon was far stronger than she looked and had the element of surprise. He stumbled forward, startled and gasping, into the darkness of Cai’s room. Devon yanked the door shut and held it hard.

The Book Eaters pretty much has everything i love in a novel. it has stunning writing, a unique and fascinating plot, and the icing on the cake: complex, morally gray characters with relationship dynamics unlike anything i've ever seen. i'm not usually a fan of books where the protagonist has children, but the way Sunyi Dean wrote Devon's rage every time her child came to harm, the way she became completely unhinged? yes, extremely satisfying. female rage at its finest. personally, i think literature needs more women who will literally rip a man's throat out with their bare teeth when provoked!

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Devon has always seen through the facade of the happily ever afters she consumes, and when she gives birth to a Mind Eater son, Cai, she realizes she is the only person who can save him from becoming a Dragon. In the present timeline, Devon and the now 5-year-old Cai have escaped the ‘eaters, but Devon is struggling to keep him under control and out of the Knights’ grasp while she searches for a way that they can both be free for good. And Devon would laugh, put on a crown made from braided daisies, and run around the yard in her tattered lace dress shouting I’m a princess! Sometimes, she tried to play with the aunts, because if she were a princess then they ought to be queens. But always, the older women withdrew from her with anxious glances, rarely leaving their own bedrooms. Devon eventually decided they were boring and left them alone. Hamfisted. Why is there sexism when women are prized this much and knowledge is their domain? Why is their society structured this way? We didn't examine it.

No one here is exactly a princess or a knight or a dragon, but this is the mythos of the Families. The rare girls are prized, but kept in the dark about so many things. Their purpose is to grow up, marry twice, bearing one child in each marriage, and then become one of the aunts who lurk around the old houses. Knights help all of this along. Dragons, though, have no say in anything. She met his gaze. “Are you a good person?” The question that consumed her, every time. Every victim. “Are you kind?”Dean fully invests readers in Devon’s struggles, both as a girl attempting to prise tiny snatches of freedom from a patriarchal society and as an adult mother frantic to protect her son. The Book Eaters‘ depiction of the sacrifices and joys of motherhood is particularly nuanced, grounding the fantasy elements of the story in the relationship between Devon and Cai. And Dean expertly expands the scope of the story to explore even more characters’ experiences, such as the other ‘eater women’s oppression and loneliness, Devon’s friend Yarrow’s isolation as an asexual person in the procreation-obsessed ‘eater society and Cai’s pain at being viewed as a monster. Really, it was pointless to apologize. Victims didn’t want your sorry-so-sorrys when you were hurting them, they wanted you to stop. Devon couldn’t oblige, though, and apologies were all she had these days. Apologies, and booze. I received an ARC of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Quotes are taken from the ARC and are subject to change upon publication. I know that this book will not be for everyone, and that is completely okay! I hope your next book pleases you better <3

The Book Eaters is told in two timelines, as Dean spins the tale of Devon’s childhood and marriages, weaving this horror story into her fraught, exhausting present. When we meet Devon, she’s escaped Family life with Cai and is trying her best to take care of him, with all that entails—and sometimes it entails bodies. She’s also trying to find a connection to hook her up with Redemption, and trying to stay one step ahead of her dragon brother. You’re the only princess in our little castle,” Uncle Aike would say with a wink. Tall and gray-haired, he enjoyed folding his lanky frame into comfortable chairs and drinking copious quantities of inktea. “You get to be Princess Devon. Just like in the fairy tales, eh?” He would make a little flourish with his hands, a smile crinkling up the corners of his mouth. This is a dark read with twisted creatures, such an interesting plot, morally grey characters I loved and lesbian and ace rep. I couldn’t have devoured this faster or recommend it more! In my opinion, one of the best devices in this book was the usage of excerpts from various well-known fairy tales and literary works we are all so familiar with. Used at the beginning of some chapters, they helped give me an understanding of the limited world the book eaters created for themselves, but when used before the other chapters, they showed massive applicability to Devon’s situation and perceived helplessness. Not only did they drag me deeper into the story, but they also made me sympathise with her, and got me thinking about how young girls are taught to aspire to be princesses, and about how vital a tool these stories are in the effort to control us and tell us what kind of lives we need to wish to have.Mothers front and center. We don't see many moms in fantasy from the mom's perspective. This has one! She loves her kids! Cuando su segundo hijo nace como un devorador de mentes, que es un subgrupo más oscuro de devoradores de libros con hambre de mentes humanas, Devon jura no cometer el mismo error y huye con él. I have given it one star because there is nothing whatsoever wrong with the the writing style in my opinion. For a debut, the writing is pretty decent and the way the story is structured and various plot points are revealed is solid and logical. I would be inclined to read another book from the author if the topic was more to my reading taste. Devon Fairweather is a book eater, a human-like creature who feeds on books and knowledge to survive. Devon Fairweather is a princess, one of the very rare women among The Families, the book-eater clans. But, above all, Devon Fairweather is a mother who will do everything and anything to keep her son, Cai, safe from the Families as Cai is a mind eater, someone who feeds on brains to survive. The men in power want to chain him like a monster for their own benefit and there is no way Devon will allow that. She herself has been restrained by the doctrinaire rules of The Families her entire life—her son will be free, or she will die trying. La trama avanza, ágil, pero realmente no pasan cosas interesantes. Esas ideas están diluidas en tanta agua que el 70% del libro no me gustó. 5% es el principio.

I hate that I'm leaving a bad review on this book. I'd been excited for it since I heard it existed! The premise sounds absolutely fascinating, almost immediately mythical. It's the sort of plot that you can't believe hasn't been done a million times before. Book eaters gaining knowledge through eating books! It's a good hook, for sure. it would be so easy to write devon off as a vicious, villainous, violent (alliteration!) woman, and perhaps she is. or perhaps she is just a woman, and perhaps the villains are the systems in place, archaic but adapting, that force devon to make certain choices. perhaps she is a morally reprehensible person. perhaps her entire worldview is wrong. but love is not "inherently good", as she notes, and that is her framework, for better or for worse. 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. This is a personal preference but setting this kind of story in the modern times just didn't work for me at all. The way the families operated and the language they used felt very Victorian, and therefore any mention of motorcycles or video games (this was a particularly annoying one for me) did nothing but pulled me out of the story. Devon is part of The Family, an old and reclusive clan of book eaters. 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.These days, Devon only bought three things from the shops: books, booze, and Sensitive Care skin cream. The books she ate, the booze kept her sane, and the lotion was for Cai, her son. He suffered occasionally from eczema, especially in winter. She slunk past a row of decrepit terraces. Passersby drifted up and down the pavement. A tight knot of people huddled outside one of the houses, drinking and smoking. Music leaked through curtainless windows. Devon took a left off the main street to avoid the crowds. Aspectos feministas que están bien y todo da forma a una cruel metáfora de la toxicidad que tiene cualquier culto opresivo aislado y extraño que puedas encontrar en cualquier parte del mundo. Se queda en suculenta premisa. No pasa nada interesante. Engañoso, una pena que lo que llama para leerlo sea tan insípido y sin darle la importancia que merece. Podría ser un 5⭐️. Theodore Miller, a stopping working pupil that has actually not finished from the academy for 3 years. A brilliant mind and also solid will alone can not get rid of the wall surface of skill so his regrettable truth of not being an illusionist continued. After days of misery as well as vast sighs, a brand-new transforming factor comes …’Gluttony ‘: a magic publication that greedily takes in expertise and also makes the claimed understanding the power of its master found Theodore’s hands.If he obtains his hands on any type of publication, any type of magic in it becomes his. Read Book Eater Manga.



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