5/30/2023 0 Comments Illumicrate the book eatersDean is a brilliant world-builder, farming out just enough bits of information along the way to help fill in the gaps of Devon’s early years while helping the reader understand her motivation and goals in the present timeline. The narrative structure of the book divides its time between Devon’s past, alternating chapters with present day Devon and Cai on the run. It’s a patriarchal society full of empty promises and it’s horrifying. Eater women are used as little more than birthing cows before being forcibly separated from their children and moved onto the next marriage. This process is more vampiric than zombie: the feedings imprint the victims’ personalities upon Cai, so this five-year-old must contend with multiple identities constantly fighting for control of his mind.įemale book eaters are rare, so Devon’s Family-and the other Families of book eaters across modern day United Kingdom-arrange temporary marriages between Houses for procreative purposes. Devon is raising her five-year-old son Cai, who is not a book eater, but a mind-eater: he must sustain himself by feeding on the brains of others. Devon is a book eater, part of a race of supernatural entities that consumes tomes while absorbing the knowledge they contain.
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