![]() ![]() 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. ![]() 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. ![]() So, when her second-born cried with a tell-tale curled tongue and her husband prepared to send the baby to the knights, Devon weighed her options: find someone in the Ravenscar Family to give the boy curing medicine hunt for him bi-weekly, until he could hunt for himself or let the Family have her son. Like everything in the Family, it was as it'd always been, just as it was expected that princesses would relinquish their children– forcibly, if necessary.ĭevon had lost her firstborn this way, and she vowed that it wouldn't happen again. ![]()
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