Honeyeater

Vanessa Bettencourt
Aug 9
2 min read

Pub Date Sep 02 2025

Tor Publishing Group | Tor Books

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Sci Fi & Fantasy

5 for the complexity

Amazing surreal magic realism, dark mystery, fantasy. I can't even settle on one single word to describe it. Complex, lyrical, and mindblowing. The best way I can describe it is that we experience it from the first time the Pov of the supernatural perspective instead of having a character suffer supernatural things that they can't explain. I appreciate that the author included a child. I love books that have different characters of different ages. These four characters are speaking the same language, although some are still victims and some are in control. This is a book that must be read slowly to easily digest what is being revealed.

Amazing cover as well.

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Description

A richly imagined dark fantasy that pulses with the beautiful destruction of a town reclaimed by the natural world.

Sub-tropical Bellworth is founded on floodplains and root-bound secrets. And Charlie, remarkable only for vanished friends and a successful sister, plans to leave for good, just as soon as he deals with his dead aunt’s house. Then Grace arrives, desperate, with roses pressing up through her skin, and drags Charlie into the ghost-choked mysteries of Bellworth, uncovering the impossible consequences of loss and desire — and a choice Charlie made when he was a boy.But peeling back the rumors and lies that cocoon the suburb disturbs more than complacent neighbors and lost souls. And Charlie and Grace are forced to a decision that threatens not only their lives, but all they believed those lives could be.