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Colorado Hiking Book Club - Fantasy & Science Fiction

Denver area based hiking book club centered on the Fantasy and Science Fiction genres. We prioritize reading BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, and women authors.

Book Eaters

"I devoured this."—V. E. Schwab, New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie La Rue

An International Bestseller
An NPR Best Sci Fi, Fantasy, & Speculative Fiction Book of 2022
A Book Riot Best Book of 2022
A Vulture Best Fantasy Novel of 2022
A Goodreads Best Fantasy Choice Award Nominee

A Library Journal Best Book of 2022

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.

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304 pages

Average rating: 6.62

81 RATINGS

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Community Reviews

Maddy0930
Aug 31, 2024
9/10 stars
There was a few sections of this book that I had trouble getting into, but I’m really glad I finished reading it to the end. I really appreciate that this book had a messy ending and wasn’t wrapped up in a picture perfect happy ending. I thought it was very fitting for Devon. The ending had me really worried for a bit that it was going to end darker. I was almost sure that Hester was going to die, and that Cai was going to lose his mind. I’m glad neither of those things happened, I think Devon deserves at least a little bit of happiness.
BrooklynTaylor23
Jun 14, 2024
8/10 stars
8.2 Really liked this. Easy read. Straight forward. Really cool concept. Felt like everything tied up well in the end nothing was left on finished. Definitely could be a good book if you’re in a reading slump.
CAshleigh94
Jan 27, 2024
3/10 stars
3.75 ⭐️ I liked and enjoyed this book, HOWEVER the last 30% of the book feels like you're reading an 800 page novel. This was out of my comfort zone and I am happy I read it.
Ellaida
Nov 02, 2023
6/10 stars
Book eaters are stuck in their traditions like the traditional books they eat, their women's lives always leading to marriage, because they lack creativity themselves so they absorb . Isn't this like humans in a way, the books and stories we are 'fed' shape who we are. At one point there is some Polish spoken in the book and at first I was thrilled, that's my mother tongue! But the excitement quickly wore off as the translation felt clunky, not realistic and at points grammatically incorrect. I believe as an author who wants to use a specific language in their book, it is the author's responsibility to do thorough research and maybe, I don't know, speak to a Pole to make sure what you're writing doesn't sound like a Google translation. Unfortunately that has made me drop a full star from the raring as I couldn't stop cringing. Also, Killock is a pillock.

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