The Night Eaters Book 1: She Eats The Night - Book Review

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Liu, M. The Night Eaters Book 1: She Eats the Night . Takeda, S (Illustrator). Abrams Books (2022). Image Link.

The Night Eaters Book 1: She Eats the Night was written by Marjorie Liu and illustrated by Sana Takedua the Eisner-award winning creative team behind the best-selling series Monstress. She Eats the Night is 208-pages long and was published by Abrams Books on 11 October 2022. It is the first book in a new trilogy by Liu and Takedua.

In this slow-burn horror novel, we are introduced to a morally ambiguous character called Ipo, who used to work as a stunt woman in Hong Kong in the 1950s, before she immigrated to the United States with her husband Keon and settled down and had children. In the present, Chinese-American twins Milly and Billy are having a difficult time. It has been a struggle for them to keep their restaurant afloat during the pandemic and now their parents are in town and offering to help them.

Milly and Billy have never been that close to their mother, Ipo, who has always been critical of their life choices and emotionally distant from them. When Ipo demands that Milly and Billy help her clean up a run-down ruin next door, the twins agree to lend a hand, hoping that it will help mend their relationship with their mother. What unfolds is a terrifying night of gore and mayhem that reveals some startling secrets about Ipo and Keon and their children.

The Night Eaters was an amazing book. The Washington Post named it as one of the Top 10 Graphic Novels of 2022 . I loved it so much that I read it in a single afternoon. It was really terrifying but in a really fun way. I can't wait to read the next volume. Marjorie hasn't just written a horror story about two young people who get trapped inside the haunted house. The Night Eaters is a well-crafted and complex story about two children terrified of facing judgement from the Mother from Hell. The thing that really drew me into this book was the artwork by Sana Takeda. Her character designs were so electric they almost jumped right off the page. Liu and Takeda pulled me into a terrifying world of grotesque violence, creepy dolls, judgemental mothers, and hooded figures lurking in the shadows.

Summary: The Night Eaters Book 1: She Eats the Night is a book about monsters, family secrets, and inter-generational trauma.
Cost: $49.99
Website: The Night Eaters Book 1: She Eats the Night - Abrams Books
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