Eat the Ones You Love
During a grocery run to her local shopping center, Shell Pine sees a ‘HELP NEEDED’ sign in a flower shop window. She’s just left her fiancé, lost her job, and moved home to her parents’ house. She has to make a change and bring some good into her life, so she goes inside and takes a chance. Shell realizes right away that flowers are just the good thing she's been looking for, as is Neve, the beautiful florist who wrote the sign asking for help. The thing is, Neve needs help more than Shell could possibly imagine.
An orchid growing out of sight in the heart of the mall is watching them closely. His name is Baby, and the beautiful florist belongs to him. He’s young, he’s hungry, and he’ll do just about anything to make sure he can keep growing big and strong. Nothing he eats – nobody he eats – can satisfy him, except the thing he most desires. Neve. He adores her and wants to consume her, and will stop at nothing to eat the one he loves.
This is a story about possession, and monstrosity, and working retail. It is about hunger and desire, and other terrible things that grow.
- Pages
- 288
- First published
- 2024
- Language
- English
- Edition
- Ebook
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Started May 12, 2025 · Finished May 15, 2025
"They move quickly in their death: they are beautiful, they are lush, then they are no use at all, emitting a ripeness that forces other flowers to bloom faster if they’re left standing around too long. Like an ecosystem of dead things, pulling one another further into decay." This is the stalker romance I didn’t know I needed. I love plants and this was such a creative way to give life to them. Baby was braided into the life of this story rooted in every crevice and seam with obsession and hunger when someone really needed to put Baby in the corner… this is about a sentient plant who I wasn't sure if it was going to fuck them or eat them but I was thoroughly invested in the weird ass relationships in this, as well as the creepy POV of this mutant orchid spying on all these characters and narrating their life and feelings. As an avid orchid lover and collector I appreciated the life that was brought to this plant and enjoyed reading its desperate need to consume and love these MCs while they try to navigate their own lives. I will not be looking at my own orchids the same for quite some time... 🌶️1.5/5 There is questionably inappropriate romance(s), and a little spice. "The path ahead of her was strewn with petals; the path behind rippled with flames." 📚 Reading Between the Vines: 📚 Click Here to Join a Fun Discord Book Club
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