The Book Eaters By Sunyi Dean

On the outskirts of England lies a secret society, a supernatural race known as book eaters, that consume books as food, retaining all of their contents and knowledge. As their numbers dwindle, book eater women are raised into a life of marriage contracts and child breeding. This is the fate of Devon, who flees with her second son soon after he is born. Dean’s dark fantasy debut is decadent, a feast of a novel interlocked with a quest for agency, transformation, and identity. An aptly named book that I devoured in just one evening.