Sunyi Dean - The Book Eaters

Details
Paperback - As new

Rating
3.7/5 Goodreads

Synopsis
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 mother's savage devotion, and a queer love that will electrify readers looking for something beguiling, thrilling, strange, and new.

"This gritty, gothic anti-fairytale knows the truth: love will make a villain out of anyone" - #1 New York Times bestseller, Olivie Blake, author of The Atlas Six