Since the dawn of the written word, there has been a human-looking race of creatures that subsists solely by eating books, gobbling up knowledge and stories while nourishing their bodies. However, every once in a while, a book eater will give birth to a mind eater, one who feeds on the minds and ideas of humans and other book eaters. For a long time, a specific group of book eaters manufactured a medication called Redemption, which has the ability to keep mind eaters from feasting on their preferred diet, and aim them toward the more acceptable books. But that group has imploded and disappeared, leaving the mind eaters as dangerous and uncontrollable creatures once again. Book eater Devon is determined to track down Redemption for her son Cai, and hopefully escape the book eater world altogether.
There's something very mafia-like about the book eater "Families," in this book, and combined with the zombie-esque (though faster and more intelligent) mind eaters, this book wasn't nearly as interesting to me as I thought it would be. I recognize that that's probably a "me" problem, not a book problem though, and I'd happily recommend it to someone who's interested in a creative new type of supernatural creature.
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