Content-wise, it's a stereotypical family drama + cross-country chase. I was so looking forward to how it'd take off-it did and didn't. It's *the* thing that I imagine hooked a lot of others to spend their credits on this. I'll start with this: Interesting premise. I will long ponder whether I can hold the behaviors of another species against them if they are only doing what is right in their own world. I think I felt the most sorry for all the aunties and what loss they represented. Other minor characters might be innocent if a lack of response to their stifling world around their can be excused. His surviving paternal uncle is the second.

I loved Devon's son who was only one of two innocent main characters despite all the minds he had to absorb. All flawed, just trying to survive the world as they each understood it to be. I liked that there were no perfect book eater adults. Many lingering feelings and thoughts will keep my mind busy for some time. Second, as a human being, the actions of the book eaters were very uncomfortable, if not wrong by human standards. 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.īut 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.Ī Macmillan Audio production from Tor Books.įirst, between the wonderful author and one of the best narrators I've listened to, I felt like I was fully immersed in the story. Eating a map can help them remember destinations, and children, when they misbehave, are forced to eat dry, musty pages from dictionaries.ĭevon is part of The Family, an old and reclusive clan of book eaters. To them, spy novels are a peppery snack romance novels are sweet and delicious. 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. Truth is found between the stories we're fed and the stories we hunger for. A delicious modern fairy tale.”- Christopher Buehlman, Shirley Jackson Award-winning author

Sunyi 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. This program includes a bonus conversation between the author and narrator about the novel, family, and neurodivergency.

The book eaters by sunyi dean