num_pages: 298
description: I devoured this.V. E. Schwab New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie La RueOut 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 Devonlike all other book eater womenis 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 hungernot for books but for human minds.
language: English
title: The Book Eaters
publisher: Tor Books