The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean

There are monsters among us and sadly for Devon her son, Cai is one of them. Devon was married off to a powerful family to breed a book eater but had a mind eater instead. The child was set to be sent away to the Knights to be used in any way they saw fit until Devon escapes with the baby. That escape does not come without a price and should she not deliver the whereabouts of the one family who make a drug to control the mind eaters, her child will pay with his life. This is a secret underworld that humans are not privy to just like the witches and vampires of DISCOVERY OF WITCHES with all the violence and hunger of DRACULA and creative world building of Neil Gaiman. Imagine being able to consume (literally) books and instantly know all the knowledge within the pages. Now imagine only being able to satisfy that hunger by devouring a mind - memories and all. There is one lesson to be learned from this - never underestimate what a mother will do to protect her child.  4 eating machine stars