Description: "A twisted, tangled story about workplace love-affairs, and plants with a taste for human flesh. During a grocery run to her local shopping center, Shell Pine sees a 'HELP NEEDED' sign in a flower shop window. She's just left her fiancâe, lost her job, and moved home to her parents' house. She has to make a change and bring some good into her life, so she goes inside and takes a chance. Shell realizes right away that flowers are just the good thing she's been looking for, as is Neve, the beautiful florist who wrote the sign asking for help. The thing is, Neve needs help more than Shell could possibly imagine. An orchid growing out of sight in the heart of the mall is watching them closely. His name is Baby, and the beautiful florist belongs to him. He's young, he's hungry, and he'll do just about anything to make sure he can keep growing big and strong. Nothing he eats - nobody he eats - can satisfy him, except the thing he most desires. Neve. He adores her and wants to consume her, and will stop at nothing to eat the one he loves. This is a story about possession, and monstrosity, and working retail. It is about hunger and desire, and other terrible things that grow"--
Brief description: Sarah Maria Griffin is from Dublin, Ireland. She is the author of the novels Spare & Found Parts and Other Words For Smoke, which won an Irish Book Award in 2019. She writes about video games for The Guardian, and her nonfiction has appeared in The Irish Times, The Winter Papers, and The Stinging Fly, amongst other places. She also makes zines.
Review Quotes:
"Deliciously strange, delightfully wicked." --V. E. Schwab, New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
"A beautiful dark gem of a book." --Zoraida Córdova, USA Today bestselling author of The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina "Sarah Maria Griffin is an artist of the rarest kind: genuine, vulnerable, funny, tragic and wise." --Sarah Rees Brennan, New York Times bestselling author of Long Live Evil "Eat The Ones You Love is a masterpiece--inventive, intimate, and scalpel-sharp." --Laura Steven, award-winning author of The Society of Soulless Girls "I devoured this book in a matter of days, but it will be snaking through my mind for a long time to come." --Adrienne Celt, author of End of the World House "Eat the Ones You Love is a story that has everything: monsters, malls, and minimum wage. Griffin is a genius of suburban gothic, and like Baby, I'm always hungry for more." --Caroline O'Donoghue, bestselling author of The Rachel Incident "It's been an excellent few years for gothic novels, and Eat the Ones You Love is among the best I've read. It's certainly the most fun. Gorgeous, bewitching, full of heart and secrets and smarts, it kept me up late and turned my dreams strange." --Kelly Link, bestselling author of The Book of Love "A smart, meticulously observed, funny, disturbing, and endlessly inventive novel about desire and all that that greedy, destructive, and sometimes lovely word encapsulates. Eat the Ones You Love will consume (sorry, not sorry) you."--Paul Tremblay, New York Times bestselling author of Horror Movie "This depraved novel is something truly beautiful to behold. Nothing can prepare you for what lurks within its pages." --Lucy Rose, author of The Lamb "Lush, eerie, and sensual...a stunner." --Publishers Weekly, starred review