Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“Love was sometimes a terrible thing”

The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean

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Devon is a book eater, and part of an old Family that lives in a manor house on the Yorkshire Moors. Book eaters do as you imagine, eat books for sustenance and take on the information found within. The Family are old fashioned and patriarchal. As one of the few girls being born to book eaters these days, Devon is given fairy tales to eat. Nothing that would spark her imagination to want more from her life. Once she comes of age, she will be […]

“For here was the thing that no fairy tale would ever admit, but that she understood in that moment: love was not inherently good.”

The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean

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This was a weird and unique read. If you like darker fantasy that plays with ideas as the basis for stories, this might be a good one for you to check out. It was relatively short, but the imagination the author showcases was really fun, and the icky elements were icky in a good way. I’m not quite sure how to talk about the book, though! The main character here is Devon, a Book Eater, which is a human-like being who instead of eating food, […]

“I devoured this.” V. E. Schwab

The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean

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As a book lover, I couldn’t resist reading something called The Book Eaters. Especially with the review quote from V. E. Schwab (whom I love) “I devoured this.” Sunyi Dean’s novel is set in a dark fantasy world where there are a group of book eaters who are not human, but instead subside by eating books, which gives them the knowledge in the book. There are also mind eaters who instead eat human brains and gain knowledge that way. Devon is a princess from one […]



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