![]() ![]() Partly she avoids the pitfalls of a myriad unlikely genres, allusions, and conceits through debut novel enthusiasm and a rip-roaring plot, as princess protagonist Devon Fairweather tries to escape the Families. Press play to hear a narrated version of this story, presented by AudioHopper. Somehow, though, Sunyi Dean gets away with this, and more, in The Book Eaters. Certainly, no writer should ever aim to add all those things into a speculative fiction novel where the central six “Families” (who a divine-or alien-“Collector” may have placed on Earth) consume only books for nourishment. It would make no sense to combine a vampire lesbian Wuthering Heights with a gothic princess fairy tale. ![]()
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