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Two boys, separated by hundreds of years will never know each other—yet together they will battle a great evil at the very heart of the world—The Child Eater.

One, Matyas, resides in a medieval world whose power rests with the Academy of Wizards. The other, Simon Wisdom, in present-day America. In a town described as “the fourteenth most livable city” in a national magazine. Their lives are vastly different: as a boy, Matyas is viciously beaten by his innkeeper father, yet he will grow up to become the greatest magician. Simon is deeply loved by his widowed father, Jack, yet even a father’s dedication is helpless against the psychic terrors that overwhelm Simon from his earliest years.

Matyas takes refuge from his father’s violence in fantasies of magical cities–then true magic enters his life when he sees a man fly. Obsessed with becoming a magician and fixated on learning to fly himself, Matyas runs away to the capital, where he learns of a mysterious, long-lost Tarot of Eternity.

Matyas and Simon both suffer the same horrific visions: a dark tunnel, pieces of bodies, disembodied heads of children pleading for help. When a new boy’s body is found without a head Matyas learns a terrible secret: a magician can live forever by devouring the lives of children. The magician who does this has hidden his name so no one can work a spell against him. He is the Child Eater.

Terrified of his son’s nightmares, Jack enlists the help of the mysterious Dr. Reina. Soon however Simon realizes Reina means him ill. Is this mysterious doctor really The Child Eater and Simon is his next victim? Can the spirit of Simon’s long-dead mother and the power of Matyas’ Tarrot deck save him and the world?

With a battle against evil that stretches across centuries, Rachel Pollack, has created a thrilling world of magic, memory, and desire that will enchant readers far and wide.

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July 7, 2015
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"A bold new step for Pollack . . . a multi-layered tale of growing up and self-discovery that also happens to have a horrific supernatural terror as its central focus."―Starburst

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Rachel is considered one of the World's foremost authorities on the modern interpretation of the Tarot. Pollack is a poet, novelist, and a Tarot card and comic book artist. Among numerous honors, she is the recipient of the Arthur C. Clarke and World Fantasy awards. She has published twelve books on the Tarot, including 78 Degrees of Wisdom, Tarot for Magical Times, The New Tarot Handbook, and The Kabbalah Tree. She is a member of the American Tarot Association, the International Tarot Society, and the Tarot Guild of Australia. With fellow Tarot author Mary Greer, she has taught at the famed Omega Institute for the past fifteen years. She has been conferred the title of Tarot Grand Master by the Tarot Certification Board, an independent body. Born in Brooklyn, Pollack holds an honors degree in English from New York University, a Masters in English from Claremont Graduate School and has taught English at New York State University.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Jo Fletcher Books; First Edition (July 7, 2015)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 368 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1623654602
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1623654603
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.25 x 1 x 9.25 inches

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Rachel Pollack is considered one of the world's foremost authorities on the modern interpretation of the tarot. She is a member of the American Tarot Association, the International Tarot Society, and the Tarot Guild of Australia, and has taught at the famed Omega Institute for the past 15 years. She is an award-winning fiction writer and has also written 12 books on the tarot. She lives in New York.

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Perplexing, but not in a good way

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 6, 2015

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Three stars just because it hangs together structurally at least. But the characters make no sense. Whether child or adult, they are always flying off the handle, throwing temper fits, etc. They do and say things that don't make sense. But not in a way that tells us something about the characters; more in a "just bad writing, I guess" way. The strange behavior of characters doesn't seem to drive or motivate the plot, it seems sort of random. Speaking of plot: lots of things happen, but they're not well connected, and even though magical in nature, they're not surprising, exciting or interesting. We're told about events but don't feel them or see them. And the characters are so wooden that they don't pull us in either. Bottom line is the character reactions are perplexing and annoying, and the accidental feel of the book made it impossible for me to connect with the characters or get into the story. I found it kind of a tiring slog.

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it is stilted and dull. If you like Tarot and fantasy

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 19, 2015

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I would first offer a simple caveat about my review, in that I do not know Tarot symbolism well. This should heavily color the interpretation of The Child Eater, and I suspect a more familiar reader than I might get far more from it than I did.

Absent Tarot familiarity, I found it ponderous, with flat characters that did little to captivate my interest. I understood them to represent Tarot archetypes, and as such forgave much of their lack in depth, but engaging enough in their narrative arcs enough to turn the page was difficult. I suspect The Child Eater would be a more engaging work for the initiated readers well familiar with Tarot symbolism, but as a fantasy novel, it is stilted and dull. If you like Tarot and fantasy, buy Ogre Battle instead.

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I know it's a good one- and this one kept me up

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 25, 2014

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If a book keeps me up at night in order to finish, I know it's a good one- and this one kept me up. A fully imagined world, complete with a "Sorcerer's Apprentice" type character who goes through amazing growth and change; connected to a realistic and endearing "modern" world focusing on a loving father and his son, and their connection to a magical past they do not understand. The story weaves between these two worlds, building in intensity and suspense as you go along. If you like Tarot, fantasy, a good story, and Rachel Pollack's writing in general, you will love this book. Get it and get ready to stay up reading!

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Childs367

Don't waste your precious time.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 27, 2015

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The book had good editing. Other than that I wouldn't go beleving the other reviewers, it was quite boring with little substance, i kept waiting for it to surprise me, which it never did. The book would be better at the .99 cent value not $14.90.

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Four Stars

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 15, 2015

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Good story, well written. Would recommend it.

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One of the best books that I have read in a very long ...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 25, 2015

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One of the best books that I have read in a very long time. I was completely absorbed in the plot from beginning to end. I loved the characters and the setting.

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For the magic lover in all of us!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 25, 2015

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The Child Eater is a story about two worlds that come together to stop an ancient evil. One of the worlds is like our own world, where we have electricity and everything is cleaner. In this world we have Jack Wisdom and his son Simon. Since Jack was young, his father always told him to be more than normal as their family wasn’t super intelligent as their name said. After an incident where people made fun of them because of Jack, his tries all his life to be normal and to not pay attention to the dream he had, the voices of children he heard, and the lights he saw. In the other world, a more medieval one, where magic exists, wizards are feared and precise, lives Matyas. At the age of fifteen he leaves his family Inn, where his father treated him like a slave, along with his only friend behind. After seeing a man flying and hearing voices calling him a Master”, the way wizards are called, he goes to the capital and enters the Wizard Academy. Without knowing it, what Matyas imagenes or sees, Jack dreams it.

In both of the worlds, children between the age of 8 and 10 years old disappear and later their bodies are found without their heads. Matyas, Jack, and Simon hear their cries for help but are unable to know what to do or how to stop the Child Eater.

I will say that I have mixed emotions with this book. For one part, I loved all of the theories of how the world came to exist, the types of magic and ways to use them. Also, I liked how both worlds were intertwined. What I didn’t like sometimes was Jack and Matyas. In his quest to be more normal than normal, something his family had been trying to be for a long time, Jack seems to hurt his son without knowing it. Matyas made me mad because of his pride and paranoia.

I really like when authors do their research and combine them in their story. In this story, Rachel Pollack has created a combination of different theories of how the universe and the Earth came to exist. She takes the idea of the world being created in seven days and combines it with the idea that the Earth has been created five times. I liked how all this came to combine and how Matyas is taught about it. It creates a story inside the story that we are reading.

The story shows many points that can make the reader relate with the characters. There is love and friendship; the expectations from our parents; the need to learn everything we can; the need to show those who look down on us that we actually made it; and, most of all, to want power. Both Matyas and Jack experience these things, and even Simon with his friend Jimmy has had a hard time being his friend. It got to a point that I understood what the characters were feeling.

The Child Eater is one of those books that are hard to put done once you’ve started, and even when the narrative would go back and forth between Matyas and Jack/Simon, this made the reader want to get faster to next chapter.

If you are a fan of Rachel Pollack’s work, or you like stories that talk about Tarot cards, magic, and eternity, then I recommend you the Child Eater. Here two worlds are joined by an evil without a name that has terrorized them for a long time, but with many events made by Matyas and Jack the end is near and the children are free.

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Like exploring magic and learning how to fly

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 22, 2014

This book is set in a fantasy world, and in our world. It follows the life of Matyas in the fantasy world. He is the son of an inn Keeper and he wants more from life. Like exploring magic and learning how to fly. Then there is Simon in our world, a troubled child. But his parts are actually more about his dad. How he grows up wanting to be normal, falling in love with someone not normal, and having Simon. And wanting him to be normal too. Cos the Wisdoms are not a normal family. They see things.

I did enjoy the fantasy part more, I do love fantasy so that makes sense. It was an interesting world, interesting magic system and how the tarot cards were everywhere. Matyas on the other hand was an idiot at times, filled with hybris and more. But that did not matter cos it was how he was and it worked.

Simon's parts were more sad. He wanted to please his dad. But nightmares, knowing things, he was just so young and his dad should have told him the truth. And it's here we see more of those missing children. What is going on? How are the worlds connected?

Conclusion:
Fantasy, and paranormal. Two worlds, different POVS, it all makes it into an interesting mix.

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