Eat the Ones You Love, Sarah Maria Griffin
Eat the Ones You Love, Sarah Maria Griffin
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Eat the Ones You Love

Author: Sarah Maria Griffin

Narrator: Barry McStay, Lauren O’Leary

Unabridged: 8 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/22/2025


Synopsis

“Narrators Lauren O'Leary and Barry McStay deliver a chilling performance of this horror audiobook.” — AudioFile

"Narrators [Barry] McStay (as Baby) and [Lauren] O'Leary (voicing the remaining characters) craft an unsettling atmosphere...this spectacular work will be appreciated by audio horror fans everywhere" — Library Journal

“Do you mind me asking—what kind of help do you need?”

After losing her job and her fiancé and moving back from the city to live with her parents, Shell Pine needs some help. And according to the sign in the window, the florist shop in the mall does too. Shell gets the gig, and the flowers she works with there are just the thing she needs to cheer up. Or maybe it’s Neve, the beautiful shop manager, who is making her days so rosy?

But you have to get your hands dirty if you want your garden to grow—and Neve’s secrets are as dark and dangerous as they come. In the back room of the flower shop, a young sentient orchid actually runs the show, and he is hungry . . . and he has a plan for them all.

When the choices are to either bury yourself in the warmth of someone else’s fertile soil, or face the cold and disappointing world outside—which would you choose? And what if putting down roots came at a cost far higher than just your freedom?

This is a story about desire, dreams, decay—and working retail at the end of the world.

A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Books.

About Sarah Maria Griffin

Sarah Maria Griffin is from Dublin, Ireland. She is the author of the novels Spare & Found Parts and Other Words For Smoke, which won an Irish Book Award in 2019. She writes about video games for The Guardian, and her nonfiction has appeared in The Irish Times, The Winter Papers, and The Stinging Fly, amongst other places. She also makes zines.


Reviews

Goodreads review by myo on April 29, 2025

i’m going to try to read this again but audiobook because i just feel like the narrative didn’t work for me reading it on my kindle, i really struggled to get in to it.......more

Goodreads review by Kurryreads on February 19, 2025

3.5 stars - thank you Tor for an early copy of this book! I thought this book was not only really quirky and unique, but also unsettling and deranged. I loved the LGBTQIA+ rep and how it takes place in Ireland. I enjoyed watching Shell blossom in her new surroundings and the dynamics between her new......more

Goodreads review by Laura on January 31, 2025

Something has changed within me, something is not the same (I'm afraid of plants now)......more

Goodreads review by Dennis on March 04, 2025

3.5 stars I have a weird obsession with venus fly-traps and carnivorous plants in general, so as soon as I saw Sara Maria Griffin's upcoming novel, EAT THE ONES WE LOVE, I knew that I didn't care what it was about—I was going to read it! EAT THE ONES WE LOVE is a dark, twisted tale of workplace romanc......more

Goodreads review by Brandy Leigh on April 25, 2025

A sentient orchid chilling in a decaying mall who’s obsessed with a florist? Count me in. I do need to take away a star because damn talk about a sloooooow burn. Also the ending was to clean, but that’s just me. I don’t need no happy ending to have a good time.......more


Quotes

“Deliciously strange, delightfully wicked.” V. E. Schwab, New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“A beautiful dark gem of a book.” —Zoraida Córdova, USA Today bestselling author of The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina

“Sarah Maria Griffin is an artist of the rarest kind: genuine, vulnerable, funny, tragic and wise.” —Sarah Rees Brennan, New York Times bestselling author of Long Live Evil

Eat The Ones You Love is a masterpiece—inventive, intimate, and scalpel-sharp.” —Laura Steven, award-winning author of The Society of Soulless Girls

“I devoured this book in a matter of days, but it will be snaking through my mind for a long time to come.” —Adrienne Celt, author of End of the World House

Eat the Ones You Love is a story that has everything: monsters, malls, and minimum wage. Griffin is a genius of suburban gothic, and like Baby, I’m always hungry for more.” —Caroline O’Donoghue, bestselling author of The Rachel Incident

“Lush, eerie, and sensual…a stunner.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review