Books Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil Book by V. E. Schwab

"Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil" by V.E. Schwab is a haunting and poetic novel that explores the lives of three women linked by vampire myth across centuries and continents. Set in places including Santo Domingo de la Calzada in 1532, London, and Boston in 2019, the story follows Maria, Sabine, and Alice—queer women who are transformed into vampires and confront the brutal costs and complexities of immortality.

The novel delves deeply into themes of hunger—both literal and metaphorical—for love, freedom, power, and identity within a patriarchal world that seeks to silence or tame women. It meditates on survival versus true freedom, the cycles of violence, grief, and the power of rewriting one’s own story.

Schwab uses lush, lyrical, and raw prose imbued with the sensory texture of earth and regret to chronicle these women's journeys of rage, desire, and self-determination. The novel intertwines elements of horror, love story, found family, and gothic atmosphere, challenging traditional vampire tropes by focusing on female agency and emotional depth.