{"id":2757,"date":"2025-05-05T05:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T05:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/?p=2757"},"modified":"2025-05-05T05:05:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T05:05:00","slug":"bury-our-bones-in-the-midnight-soil-by-victoria-e-schwab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/?p=2757","title":{"rendered":"Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by Victoria E. Schwab"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil<\/strong> by V. E. Schwab<\/a>
on June 10, 2025
Genres:<\/strong> Fiction \/ Fantasy \/ Dark Fantasy<\/a>
Pages:<\/strong> 544
Format:<\/strong> ARC<\/a>
Buy on Amazon<\/a>
Goodreads<\/a> <\/p>\n

1532. Santo Domingo de la Calzada.<\/strong>
A young girl grows up wild and wily, her beauty is only outmatched by her dreams of escape. But Mar\u00eda 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, Mar\u00eda makes a desperate choice. She vows to have no regrets.
1827. London.<\/strong>
A young woman lives an idyllic but cloistered life on her family\u2019s estate, until a moment of forbidden intimacy sees her shipped off to London. Charlotte\u2019s tender heart and seemingly impossible wishes are swept away by an invitation from a beautiful widow\u2015but the price of freedom is higher than she could have imagined.
2019. Boston.<\/strong>
College was supposed to be her chance to be someone new. That\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

This is a story that mainly follows three women who are all at, let\u2019s just say, very different stages of vampirism. You don\u2019t know how their stories will connect at first, but connect they do. And it\u2019s quite satisfying. They are unapologetic with their hunger and in the best of ways, none of them aspire to be humble. The prose itself is evocative and rich, without being heavy handed. Worldbuilding takes a slight back seat, at least compared to some of Schwab\u2019s other works, but never felt lacking. The pacing of this was slow and steady and yet it\u2019s also a story full of carnage\u2026 that was such an interesting combo. I think Addie LaRue<\/em> lovers will appreciate this violent meandering.<\/p>\n

I rated this novel four stars. I wanted it to be five stars but a few things didn\u2019t end well with me. The first was that it was way too long for the actual story. I felt it could have been condensed quite a bit. The other was the ending. The ending was too easy, convenient, and sudden for me and thus anti-climatic, however it was still satisfying knowing this had to be condensed for a standalone.<\/p>\n

Thank you NetGalley and TorBooks publishing for my advanced reader copy of Schwab\u2019s newest dark fantasy. <\/p>\n

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