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The Night Eaters, Book 2: Her Little Reapers by Marjorie Liu

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bings's review

dark tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

What a second volume!!!

Loved this, I enjoyed the first volume, but this, this I loved. The pacing was perfect, the world building was phenomenal and the characters just are so so good and you can't help but to love them. The grumpy storm clouds that they are.

Loved it!

reading_beyond_the_book_cover's review against another edition

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funny mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

spenkevich's review

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4.0

All the demon-eating family drama is back in the second installment of Marjorie M. Liu’s delightfully disturbing The Night Eaters. Picking up from where we left off in She Eats the Night, which immediately hooked me and I’ve been impatiently waiting for this one, we find Milly and Billy trying to understand and cope with their newly discovered powers and family legacy with little to no help from their parents. The family dysfunctions are a blast with the cantankerous mom, the comic relief of the siblings, and everyone seems to be always screaming. RELATABLE. And then there are the parts I’m glad aren’t relatable…like the creepy dolls, the mythical monsters showing up everywhere and now the family seems to have a cult closing in on them. Her Little Reapers is a wild ride that blends the humor with the horror, adds in a heaping spoonful of gorgeously-illustrated gratuitous violence and already has me eager for the next volume.

Just a normal day in this family

Sana Takeda is an artistic gem and I love the full color, full terror artwork that brings this series to life. Liu has a great knack for humor and pacing that keeps the story flowing and I rather like how the series uses the Covid era of late 2020 as the setting. There’s a few good gags about that and other elements of society, sort of like some pretty wild and violent things happening right out in the open and nobody paying it any attention.

Her Little Reapers is a blast and I really enjoyed the infusion of Asian mythology and all the different monsters that show up throughout this volume. But that doll is forever terrifying. And now you too have to see it:

Can’t wait for the next volume.
4/5

rnfortier's review

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dark funny mysterious fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

The twins continue to be my favorite.
The art and the storytelling is just great

madison_gleason's review

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3.0

This book felt slow for most of the book and was dragging for most of the book. It really picked up at the end and went off the rails and has made me very intrigued to where it’s going to go.