![]() ![]() ![]() Indeed, it's gut-punch storytelling that shouts at the imagination. It wouldn't help that you'd be happily plagued by multiple I-didn't-see-that-coming plotlines and a modern-not-modern heroine who fights misogyny, child-snatching, and being someone’s lunch.Īnd how wonderful is author Sunyi Dean's prose? Well, on the first page, she shoves readers into a dank apartment above a car repair business, and we can practically smell the rubber of new tires. The place was super clean and all the tattoo needles he used were sealed and packaged. It’s probably not even the kind of book a sensitive soul would want to read before bedtime the very idea of a world full of thick-browed dragons and exhausted princesses running parallel to ours could either keep you awake or give you nightmares. Princesses, knights, and dragons, oh my! They’re there, plus everything else you want in a dark fable – tattered cities, menacing thickets, evil step-relatives, monsters – all of which makes “The Book Eaters” a fairy tale that definitely isn’t for five-year-olds. ![]() ![]() As he grew, so did the danger, and there’d be no Happily Ever After. She writes speculative fiction with a weird slant, and has both too many books and too many children. Or she could run, as she'd done for three years now, as knights and dragons watched for her constantly and circled her everywhere and her boy was always hungry. The Book Eaters By Sunyi Dean A Swift Introduction Sunyi Dean is a biracial fantasy author who was born in Texas, grew up in Hong Kong, and now resides in the UK. ![]()
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