I Can’t Wait For…The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean
Can’t-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted over at Wishful Endings to spotlight and discuss the books we’re excited about but haven’t yet read. Most of the time they’re books that have yet to be released, but not always. It’s based on the Waiting on Wednesday meme, which was originally hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine.
This week my Can’t-Wait-For is The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean!
The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean Representation: Lesbian MC
Published on: 9th August 2022
Genres: Fantasy, Queer Protagonists
Goodreads
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Sunyi Dean's The Book Eaters is a contemporary fantasy debut. It's a story of motherhood, sacrifice, and hope; of queer identity and learning to accept who you are; of gilded lies and the danger of believing the narratives others create for you.
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 fairytales 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.
This cover was just revealed TODAY, and I’m so glad because I don’t feel like I can feature a book in one of these posts until it has a cover – and I’ve really wanted to feature this one!
I guess as a hardcore bookwyrm I’m supposed to be appalled at the thought of people eating books, but let’s be honest, that premise is simply incredible and I love everything about it! I mean, not the part where Book Eaters are sexist prats, obviously – the idea of women being fed on fairytales, that metaphor is not subtle at all – but I presume the main character didn’t adhere to her prescribed diet, or in some other way will manage to give her male relatives the finger… And I love protective mums. Sorry-not-sorry. Especially if they go full-monster to protect their kids. This book ticks so many of my boxes!
The author is also openly autistic, which makes me so happy too! I have no idea if there’s autism rep in the book, but it’s always this little !!! of joy when I hear about a new autistic storyteller.
So yeah. I’ve had this preordered for AGES, and I strongly urge everyone else to preorder it too!
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