Haunting and horrific in just about equal measure, To Be Devoured is short enough to be. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title. REVIEW: To Be Devoured by Sara Tantlinger.

A book that's absolutely not to be missed!” -Gwendolyn Kiste, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Rust Maidens Her writing is equivalent to those unremitting avian beings her protagonist is so enamored of: It will hook its talons through your flesh, sink its neck into the ribboned edges of your wounds, and only relinquish your blighted body when it has swallowed your very soul.” -Christa Carmen, author of Something Borrowed, Something Blood-Soaked, winner of the Indie Horror Book Awards for Best Debut Collection“Vultures, obsession, and an unnatural hunger: What more can you want in a horror story? With To Be Devoured, Sara Tantlinger has done it again as she ratchets up the terror in wonderfully surprising ways while crafting prose that’s always a heady blend of the vicious and the vibrant. Once she understands the secrets the vultures conceal, she must decide between abandoning the birds of prey or risk turning her loved ones into nothing more than meals to be devoured.“Sara Tantlinger’s To Be Devoured capitalizes on our macabre preoccupation with the uglier side of nature, with love that topples into obsession, and with madness that is strangely beautiful in its barbarity. However, the desire to taste dead flesh, to stitch together wings of her own and become one with the flock sends Andi down a twisted, unforgivable path. Fawning, but even the therapist cannot help her comprehend the secrets she’s buried beneath anger-induced blackouts.Her girlfriend, Luna, tries to help Andi battle her inner darkness and infatuation with the vultures. To Be Devoured - a tale of obsession descending into the most carnal kind of madness imaginable - is brimming with unforgettable moments of gristle and. Fascination morphs into an obsessive need to know what the vultures know. The vultures circling outside her home taunt and invite her to come understand the secrets hiding in their banquet of decay. What does carrion taste like? Andi has to know.