Soul Eater — Lily Mayne

Soul Eater is the first book we're discussing in the Eight Arms Reading Room!

Twenty years ago, monsters rose on earth and began a new age of civilization.

One where humans live in military-controlled, cramped and dirty cities along the coasts, and the majority of the United States is known as the Wastes. A lawless, desolate and dangerous place, teeming with monsters that have claimed the land for their own.

Including Wyn the Soul Eater.

He appears every three years, making his way across the country and slaughtering humans randomly, sucking them dry until they're nothing but husks.

Danny's only been in the military for six months, but now he's part of a unit tasked with trying to stop and capture him. And when Danny is the only soldier out of hundreds that the Soul Eater leaves alive, Danny realizes that… something about him has intrigued the Soul Eater.

But what is it? What could a twenty-three year old guy from the south, with no one and nothing in the world, have possibly done to capture the attention of a death monster with horns, blackened fingertips and a face hidden in the dark depths of his hood?