2023/035: The Book Eaters — Sunyi Dean

2023/035: The Book Eaters — Sunyi Dean

here was the thing that no fairy tale would ever admit, but that she understood in that moment: love was not inherently good. [loc. 2856]

Devon Fairweather is a princess: cossetted but commodified, her sole worth in the children she can bear. Her species (not human but 'clothed in the skin of humankind') mostly eat books, retaining the content and relishing the varying tastes of old novels, fairy tales and lurid thrillers: at one point Devon, devouring maps to broaden her understanding of the world, seasons the glossy paper with ketchup.

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