Review: Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab

December 12, 2025

Synopsis:

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.

Review:

Consider me being late to the party 🙂 I got the book when it was originally released and finally got around to reading it.

We get three different POVs of our main characters, with one being the main driver of the story and influencing the remaining two. It is a story of different generations, coming with different expectations for woman in society.

Being different must be hidden and woman are seen as a vessel, which does not resonate well María. When offered the possibility to change the situation she is in and take charge, she takes it. She is willing to suffer first to reach her goals. She is not willing to accept the status quo though and along the way, she makes decisions, that will hurt others and starts losing pieces of herself.

The story follows these three women through different time periods, that end up connected in a tragic way. Three woman that had their own share of pain to endure in life and have more in common, then we originally thought. It is a story of love, sadness and hope.
It is not your typical love story.

I enjoyed following along the events and felt a bid sad for each of them at the end.

🌙 Recension: Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab
📚 Genre: Fantasy, Romance, Vampires, Lesbian
📅 Release Date: June 10, 2025
📖 Publisher: Tor
📗 available in various formats
📱 Read as: Physical
💸 Bought
🗣️ Language: English
📆 Pages: 535
⭐️ 4/5