LoveReading Says
Meet a fabulously different and new voice in fiction, if you hunger for uniquely mysterious and intensely wondrous reading feasts then stop right here. Surviving on a diet of words and ink, the six remaining Book Eater families of the UK are struggling to continue their lines. When one of Devon’s children is born instead as a Mind Eater, they evade pursuit and attempt to find a cure. I stepped into a world that immediately enveloped and made me its own. All my senses were on full alert as I realised that author Sunyi Dean had created something completely and daringly new. There is a deeply dark feel that permeates every page, and it comes with a warning as violence and abuse feature yet hope and love exist and flourish. There were times when I felt horrified, even as I understood the paths that were taken. While the location felt familiar, the Book Eater families stamped all over recognisable and took my mind into the unknown. This new addition to our LoveReading Star Books is a bewitchingly addictive reading experience. Promise me there’s more, promise! The Book Eaters is a richly dark fantasy debut and brings new meaning to the term bookworm, enter if you dare.
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The Book Eaters Synopsis
A gorgeous new fantasy horror - a book about stories and fairytales with family and love at its dark heart...
Perfect for fans of Neil Gaiman (Stardust, Coraline), Susanna Clarke (Piranesi) and Let the Right One In.
Hidden across England and Scotland live six old Book Eater families.
The last of their lines, they exist on the fringes of society and subsist on a diet of stories and legends.
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... or worse.
Living among humans and finding prey for her son, Devon seeks a cure for his hunger. 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...
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.
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9780008479480 |
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3rd August 2023 |
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Sunyi Dean |
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HarperVoyager an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers |
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Paperback |
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298 pages |
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Sunyi Dean Press Reviews
Some novels are intended to be devoured in one sitting. Such is the case with Sunyi Dean's The Book Eaters. Innovative, unique, poignant, and told with a voice as original as the story itself. I finished this novel in that one sitting, yet I'll be pondering it for a long time to come. This is the debut of a new master of the modern fantasy. Don't miss it.
-James Rollins, #1 New York Times bestseller of The Starless Crown
Raw and imaginative, this gritty, gothic anti-fairytale knows the truth: love will make a villain out of anyone.
-Olivie Blake, author of The Atlas Si
xSunyi Dean's 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. Great reading for a rainy morning, with tea or coffee on, a cat in your lap, and nowhere to be but lost in a delicious modern fairy tale.
- Christopher Buehlman, author of The Blacktongue Thief
'Dean reinvents the vampire in way that's both disturbing'
- RJ Barker Bestselling author of The Bone Ships
A riveting tale that consumed me as earnestly as I devoured it. Full of grit and humanity, Sunyi Dean expertly weaves the complexities of motherhood, loyalty and found family in a world not far from our own. Dean's debut has already established her as a master of craft. If I were a book eater, this novel would be one to savour.
Saara El-Arifi, author of The Final Strife
