5/29/2023 0 Comments The Book Eaters by Sunyi DeanHe suffered occasionally from eczema, especially in winter. The books she ate, the booze kept her sane, and the lotion was for Cai, her son. These days, Devon only bought three things from the shops: books, booze, and Sensitive Care skin cream. That intrigue (further deepened by the excellent US cover, with art by paper and book artist Su Blackwell) was amply repaid just in the book’s first paragraph, one of the strongest I’ve read in recent SFF: A young book eater woman undertakes a desperate, violent quest to find a way to preserve her young mind eater son from a fate decreed by the six book eater Families of Britain: death, or servitude as a “dragon,” the enforcers of the book eater militia known as the knights. I was intrigued as soon as I read the description for The Book Eaters, Sunyi Dean’s debut novel.
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