Mary’s Reviews > The Book Eaters > Status Update

“The house unfolded into view, giving the illusion of a pop-up children’s book, the ancient parapets jutting uncomfortably against failing winter light”

“If book eaters could write, they wouldn’t need other people’s books.”

“Biblichor” = the smell of very old books according to Uncle Aike

-ichor = Greek for what the “godly” version of blood

“Blood of the books” 🧐🤯

“Still, his hesitation was its own reassurance. The bad ones lied, quick and smooth——or worse, brushed it aside, sometimes with humor. Only those with a conscience would stop and evaluate her question [are you kind].”

“She could never decide which was worse: the wailing, or the silence. Maybe they were equally bad.”

“Everyone had small vices and little problems, always, but that was a given, and she could cope with the small stuff. They were only human, after all.”

Lol talk about pretentious, but I guess maybe it’s true 😂


“Be uneasy, be reluctant, and above all be vulnerable. The sure-fire act that suckered them every time.”

“Privacy was essential”

Home = “the cool unlit calm of Fairweather Manor, with it’s shade-tinted hallways and shadow-layered libraries.”

“Impossible to know which reaction…” lol wtf — she’s scared or her kid?!?!

Newcastle-upon-Tyne = town

“Many things to remember when…out and around humans.”
- feigning cold
- walking w/sound
- Dark vision
- feign of fear — especially because she (Devon ) = woman

“In short, Devon had always to act like prey, and not like the predator she had become.”