PositiveThe Los Angeles Review of BooksThe Devourers plays with and expands its own generic boundaries. It has a commitment to connect several different reading communities, and a desire — first and foremost — to affectively touch its readers ... recounting the plot or reflecting on my own ambiguous reactions does not do justice to the experience of reading The Devourers. What stays with me the most as I write this review, then, is the novel’s affective intensity ... To offer a comparison, the experience of reading Das’s novel is like watching a surrealist film: it is poetic, playful, and at times miraculous.
