The Night Eaters #1: She Eats the Night: A Graphic Novel (Volume 1)

The Night Eaters: She Eats the Nights is the first volume in a graphic novel horror trilogy from author Marjorie Liu and illustrator Sana Takeda--the creative team behind the New York Times bestselling series Monstress.

* Eisner Award Winner for Best Graphic Album--New as well as for Painter/Multimedia Artist (Interior art)
* Named a Best Graphic Novel of the Year by the Washington Post
* Named a Book We Loved by NPR

Chinese American twins Milly and Billy are having a tough time. On top of the multiple failures in their personal and professional lives, they're struggling to keep their restaurant afloat.

Luckily their parents, Ipo and Keon, are in town for their annual visit. Having immigrated from Hong Kong before the twins were born, Ipo and Keon have supported their children through thick and thin and are ready to lend a hand--but they're starting to wonder, has their support made Milly and Billy incapable of standing on their own?

When Ipo forces them to help her clean up the house next door--a hellish and run-down ruin that was the scene of a grisly murder--the twins are in for a nasty surprise. A night of terror, gore, and supernatural mayhem reveals that there is much more to Ipo and her children than meets the eye.

Eisner Award-winning and bestselling author Marjorie Liu and illustrator Sana Takeda have crafted a wild and wicked tale that will leave readers hungry for more. She Eats the Night is the perfect start to The Night Eaters trilogy, which is a combination of Monsters by Barry Windsor-Smith and Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan.

Plus don't miss ​The Night Eaters: Her Little Reapers (The Night Eaters Book #2)

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208 pages

Average rating: 6.25

4 RATINGS

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Community Reviews

not_another_ana
Jan 13, 2025
7/10 stars
Twins Milly and Billy are struggling to keep their restaurant business going during the COVID-19 pandemic. At least they have some help from their parents Ipo and Keon, two immigrants from Hong Kong who can sometimes be a bit too harsh on them, specifically their chain-smoking mother. Everything changes for this family when Ipo makes the twins help her clean the spooky and dilapidated house across the street, revealing family secrets in the supernatural and bloody events of this graphic novel. Slow start, perhaps because I felt no connection with the characters, that or my dislike for being kept in the dark. However, once we got to the action I was fully in. Interesting and different plot, I liked the intersperse of the present with the past and the art was nice to look at.

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