“The ultimate complex relationship story, this horrific tale is infused with humor and wit via Griffin’s prose.”

— Library Journal, starred review

“This poignant and original examination of desire and decay is a stunner.”

— Publisher's Weekly, starred review

“Deliciously strange, delightfully wicked.”

— V. E. Schwab

“A writer whose originality, wit and gift for the uncanny always makes me feel like I’ve been turned upside down by my ankles and forced to look at the frightening shadows beneath my furniture. 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, author of The Rachel Incident

“Eat the Ones You Love is a must-read. Both literary and accessible, dark and darkly humorous, Griffin has struck gold here.”

— The Michigan Daily

“A psychological genre-bending beauty of a novel”

— Reactor

“A seductive voice, a hungry narrator, and an unforgettable story about how we can be consumed by our passions . . . 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 visceral experience akin to stepping into a lush greenhouse and feeling your skin come alive, blood warm and tingling, as spring green vines brush your cheeks whispering promises of hunger. Decadent, heartfelt, delicious, dark, broken, sweet, and horrifying, this book is a journey of verdant, blooming love and creeping terror not to be missed.”

— Delilah S. Dawson, New York Times-bestselling author of Bloom and Guillotine

“This murdery plant is my number one problematic fave. EAT THE ONES YOU LOVE is intricate, unusual, and unlike anything you’ve read before. An eccentric, deeply sensual, and artistically sure-footed exploration of toxicity in many forms. I devoured it.”

— Olivie Blake, NYT bestselling author of The Atlas Six

“It’s been an excellent few years for gothic novels, and Eat the Ones You Love is among the best I’ve read. It’s certainly the most fun. Gorgeous, bewitching, full of heart and secrets and smarts, it kept me up late and turned my dreams strange.”

— Kelly Link, author of The Book of Love

“With Eat The Ones You Love, Sarah Maria Griffin has cultivated something rare and precious, a tale that hums with love and menace in prose so stunning it will take your breath away… With Griffin’s signature flair for beauty and complexity, this layered and immersive story of what binds and breaks us will wind it’s way around your heart and sometimes stop it.”

— Deirdre Sullivan, award-winning author of Perfectly Preventable Deaths

“Sarah Maria Griffin’s prose is intoxicatingly verdant – I found myself dying to get back to reading any time life forced me to put it down. Griffin’s voice holds your hand through the pages with compelling surety. It’s a palpable, skilfully executed horror where you can’t see the florist for the trees until it’s too late. This one lingers and I loved it.”

— Courtney Smyth, author of The Undetectables

“Exploring the raw and terrible hungers behind possession and connection, Eat the Ones You Love is a deft and binding horror-fable about what it means to seek a home or to be a home, and how that yearning can make parasites of us all. Sarah Maria Griffin writes with bone-deep appreciation for the compulsion of appetites both prosaic and taboo, weaving a powerful and all-too-relatable story of decay and desire, and what it means to crave satiation while starving yourself to the marrow in the name of belonging.”

— Melinda Salisbury, author of Her Dark Wings