The Book Eaters
About this book
***Truth is found between the stories we're fed and the stories we hunger for.*** 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. To them, spy novels are a peppery snack; romance novels are sweet and delicious. Eating a map can help them remember destinations, and children, when they misbehave, are forced to eat dry, musty pages from dictionaries. 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. 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.
Reader Profile
3.6/5 · 59355 readers · 304 pages · ≈ 5 h 38 m · Moderate
How long does it take to read The Book Eaters?
About ≈ 5 h 38 m — 304 pages, assuming roughly 250 words per page at 225 words per minute.
How many pages is The Book Eaters?
304 pages in its most-read edition.
What genre is The Book Eaters?
It sits on the Horror, Science Fiction, Fantasy shelves.
Is The Book Eaters in the public domain?
No — it is still under copyright.
Who wrote The Book Eaters?
Sunyi Dean.