Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
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4.2 • 80 Ratings
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Publisher Description
From V. E. Schwab, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue: a new genre-defying novel about immortality and hunger.
This is a story about hunger.
1532. Santo Domingo de la Calzada.
A young girl grows up wild and wily—her beauty is only outmatched by her dreams of escape. But María knows she can only ever be a prize, or a pawn, in the games played by men. When an alluring stranger offers an alternate path, María makes a desperate choice. She vows to have no regrets.
This is a story about love.
1827. London.
A young woman lives an idyllic but cloistered life on her family’s estate, until a moment of forbidden intimacy sees her shipped off to London. Charlotte’s tender heart and seemingly impossible wishes are swept away by an invitation from a beautiful widow—but the price of freedom is higher than she could have imagined.
This is a story about rage.
2019. Boston.
College was supposed to be her chance to be someone new. That’s why Alice moved halfway across the world, leaving her old life behind. But after an out-of-character one-night stand leaves her questioning her past, her present, and her future, Alice throws herself into the hunt for answers . . . and revenge.
This is a story about life—
how it ends, and how it starts.
USA Today, 15 Most Anticipated of 2025
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APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
This twisted sapphic vampire tale will make you grateful that you won’t live forever—at least not under these conditions. Maria, the red-haired and strong-willed daughter of a seamstress in 16th-century Spain, thinks she knows how to get what she wants in life. But marriage to a domineering viscount turns quickly unsatisfying, especially when Maria discovers that she isn’t really attracted to men. A new existence as a vampire sets her on a bloody, more independent, but still love-starved path. In Regency England, a young woman named Charlotte struggles with the idea that she will have to marry soon, even as she begins a friendship with an attractive, red-haired widow. And in 2019 Boston, shy, anxious Alice awakens from an encounter with a stranger calling herself Lottie to discover that she is no longer among the living. As you trace the connection among these three timelines, you’ll feel the loneliness and desperation of being unable to settle anywhere, longing for love even as the soul rots away. The romance is as palpable as the chills.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Bestseller Schwab (The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue) unfolds an epic and emotionally resonant tale about three lesbian vampires connected through the centuries. In 16th-century Spain, wild Maria avoids pregnancy and eventually escapes her lonely marriage with the help of a mysterious herbalist widow, but poorly rewards the woman's offer of the gift of eternal life by killing her and taking on her name, Sabine. After centuries of wandering, only rarely finding others of her own kind, Sabine hunts and then turns Charlotte in 19th-century London—but Charlotte flees when their loving connection sours under mercurial Sabine's jealousy. In 21st-century Boston, Scottish Harvard student Alice seeks novelty and reminisces about her sister, but after a postparty hookup with Lottie leaves her as a vampire, she is determined to find Lottie again and get some answers. Schwab crafts intricate backstories for her leads, beautifully balancing the humanity and monstrosity of all three women while chronicling their transformations over time. The result is a haunting and worthwhile story about cruelty, grace, love, and what it means to live forever.
Customer Reviews
Like the author plucked the story out of my head…
…and rendered it beautifully onto the page, everything I’ve ever wanted from a vampire story condensed into a book that I had trouble putting down even deep into the night on a weekday.
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