We also pick up with the remains of Aunt Sally's crew, and await, with some increasing anxiety, the inevitable reunion between the two groups. The book has us reconnecting with the remaining residents of the foster home, five years after the events of Good Girls. The survivor of that original pair exists in Nothing to Devour, but as a side character, a sad creature fallen into the corners and shadows. We started out with two leads, Sophie and Natalie, and, well, readers of the first two books know how things have gone for those two. It's an appropriately dreary ending, full of Hirshberg's remarkable description and dialogue. Nothing To Devour brings to a close the trilogy Glen Hirshberg began with Motherless Child and continued with Good Girls. In their own ways, they are all monsters. These people are drawn together from across the United States, bound by love and hatred, by the desire for reunification and for revenge. Herself, and one special girl, Aunt Sally's last chance to be a perfect mother.
When her existence was exposed to the human world, she didn't hesitate to destroy her home, and her offspring, to save herself. It only matters that Sophie is a vampire.Īunt Sally loved all the monsters she'd created in the hundreds of years since she died and rose again. It doesn't matter that Sophie's baby died so that Jess's grandson could live. To Jess, it doesn't matter that Sophie was once as close to her as her own daughter.
Sophie is determined to protect the people she loves best in the world-but she is a monster. Thousands of miles away, another victim rises-a dead woman who still lives. Emilia feels sorry for him-like her, he is always alone. Alone save for one last patron, his head completely swathed in bandages, his hands gloved, not one inch of skin exposed. Librarian Emilia is alone in a library that is soon to close its doors forever. Glen Hirshberg's critically-acclaimed trilogy comes to a shattering conclusion that proves that this International Horror Guild and Shirley Jackson Award winner understands the true depths and heights of this thing called life. "Brilliantly dark, captivating."-Elizabeth Hand on Good Girls
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