Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
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Publisher Description
Santo Domingo de la Calzada, 1532.
London, 1837.
Boston, 2019.
Three young women, their bodies planted in the same soil, their stories tangling like roots.
One grows high and one grows deep and one grows wild.
And all of them grow teeth.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
What happens when girls grow sharp teeth and learn how to bite? When a girl for whom life has been curtailed by society’s expectations suddenly discovers she could, if she so chooses, live forever? V.E. Schwab’s novel is a lush, fantastical look at three different young women in three different time periods. What happened, the story asks, that made them choose a path that others might find horrific? And what happens, we ask, when this story becomes a full-cast audiobook? (That one’s easy: an intoxicating thrill ride that showcases the rising force of female power and the creeping undercurrent of toxicity.) In the wild, dark, sexy Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil, the narrative is split between the three heroines: Maria in 16th-century Spain, Charlotte in Victorian London and Alice in 21st-century Boston. Each is distinctly drawn, and each is enraptured by a stranger and the offer she makes.
