# A Feast for the Eyes

**Author**: Alex Crespo

**Summary**:
Sawkill Girls meets Twin Peaks in a page-turning queer supernatural thriller, where four teens must track down a local cryptid that’s feeding off secrets, before their own hidden truths are exposed.  
“Alex Crespo thrills with a meticulously crafted page-turner. A feast of twists, tension and secrets.” —C.S. Pacat, New York Times bestselling author of Dark Rise

On the dreary Oregon coast, an all-seeing beast—known as the Watcher—lies in wait. When Shay and her girlfriend, Lauren, get into a fight over whether to go public with their clandestine relationship, they awaken the creature. Although Lauren is badly injured, the girls escape with their lives but can’t shake the feeling of the creature’s eyes tracking them. Meanwhile, aspiring photographer Zoe is desperate to put together a portfolio worthy of earning a scholarship to attend art college. Her photography teacher praises her skill but urges her to select more daring subjects for her submissions—a tall task when Zoe's camera acts as a barrier between herself and the rest of the world.

As rumors swirl about Lauren's injuries, Shay remains steadfast in that the Watcher is to blame, not her. She asks for Zoe’s help in snapping a photo of the local legend. Proof would help Shay clear her name and certainly be daring enough for Zoe’s scholarship. Together with their friends Jack and Parker, they set out to expose the Watcher before its ever-creeping eyes cast the secrets they’re all keeping from the town—and one another—into the light.

**Perfect for readers who love**:
- Sapphic yearning
- Popular girl/Unpopular girl romance
- Slow Burn
- Secret Relationship
- Small Town with a Dark Secret
- Found Family
- Eldritch Abomination
- Hunter Becomes the Hunted

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### Posts about A Feast for the Eyes

**Bailee Russo**:  
_Bee's Books_ • Jun 26

"Wronggggggg. Now, we can have a conversation about how publishing house conglomerates and the trend-led mass-market led by an overwhelming white, straight, etc, majority creates a homogeneity of stories...sure. We can talk about that all day long. But if we do, we _also_ need to talk about how consumers drive that market, and how our choices -- on social media feeds, on review platforms, at the bookstore -- make an impact on those publishing trends. That, I think, is a more interesting conversation. Because if we put in the effort to follow book reviewers from a diversity of perspectives, to support indie and underrepresented authors, to review the books we read with critical self-reflection, to support our local book vendors, libraries, etc...then we will find a huge, wide world of weird and wonderful literature just waiting for its audience. And in doing so, we can make an impact on publishing as a whole, too. So, here are a few unique books that I think you might love, featuring:
1. Cannibalistic nuns
2. Faustian bargains
3. Shape-shifting mermaids
4. Talking animals
5. Alternate futures
6. Parasitic aliens
7. Swampcore haunted cabins
8. Cryptids and more.

#### Recommended Books:
- **Herculine** by Grace Byron: an all Trans girls commune haunted by demons.
- **The Reformatory** by Tanarive Due: a segregated reform school and the evil inside.
- **Wife Shaped Bodies** by Laura Cranehill: the trad wives are sprouting mushrooms.
- **A Dark and Drowning Tide** by Allison Saft: a dark academia quest for a magic spring.
- **Sky Full of Elephants** by Cebo Campbell: a new world where all the white people have disappeared.
- **The Buffalo Hunter Hunter** by Stephen Graham Jones: A Blackfeet vampire seeking vengeance.
- **The Starving Saints** by Caitlin Starling: a medieval castle under siege and the cannibalistic fever dream that unfolds inside.
- **What We Feed to the Manticore** by Talia Lakshmi Kolluri: a collection of compelling short stories all told from the perspectives of animals.
- **After Love** by Tanya Byrne: a fantastical lesbian love story that literally transcends death itself.
- **Green Fuse Burning** by Tiffany Morris: a grief-stricken Indigenous artist who arrives at a cabin in a remote, swampy forest, before strange things start to happen.
- **Fate's Bane** by CL Clark: sword-wielding, star-crossed lovers from rival clans, inspired by Celtic folklore.
- **A Feast for the Eyes** by Alex Crespo: four teenagers hunting the local cryptid that feeds on secrets.
- **They Bloom at Night** by Trang Thanh Tran: a red algae bloom causes strange mutations in a small Louisiana town.
- **The Seep** by Chana Porter: a parasitic alien invasion that creates a strange utopia, and one woman's quest to stop its spread.
- **The Gloaming** by Kirsty Logan: a hungry sea, a family beset by grief, and a strange woman who climbs up from the water.  
**Happy reading!**  
_B_

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### Next Releases

#### Literary Fiction
- **And I'll Take Your Eyes Out** by A. M. Sosa (Audiobook):
  "An insultingly good debut" following a queer Chicano’s cannon-shot into adulthood amidst familial turmoil and the suffocating violence of Stockton, California in the early 2000s.

#### Fantasy
- **The River And The Star** by Gabriela Romero Lacruz (Audiobook)
- **Tales of Dark Feminine** by V. Castro (Audiobook): 26 modern retellings of legends and folktales about fierce female deities and spirits from around the world.

#### Young Adult
- **A Feast for the Eyes** by Alex Crespo (Audiobook): Queer Latine monster mystery featuring sapphic yearning, found family, and a hunter becoming the hunted.

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