Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab
⭐⭐⭐⭐- Shelf Worthy!
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Morning Readers & Happy Wednesday!
I hope you all are having a great week so far and managing to get in some reading! I am loving the incoming fall weather and coming home to a warm cozy space, not to mention an amazing night last night at my first Mentor Event with a local women’s business group. Amy and I decided to meet ahead of the event to get to know each other and I am so excited and blessed to be working with her!
I think sometimes the first steps towards following your dreams is really to just start taking yourself seriously and making the conscious decision to step up to the plate.
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V. E. Schwab weaves together the stories of three women across different centuries—María in 16th-century Spain, Charlotte in 19th-century London, and Alice in modern-day Boston—each bound by hunger, immortality, and a dark legacy.
So I was a huge fan of Schwab’s previous book, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, it honestly left me with a book hangover, and her elegant writing style brought to life yet another amazing story. It did take a little white to ‘warm up’ as quite a lot of back story is given to each of the characters, but I think that’s also what helped bring it to life as things started picking up. The villain of this story is given context and you are really kept guessing up until the very end, more than that, you want to keep reading past the ending and I think that is one of the tell-tale signs of a great book!
While I probably would have rated this book a 4.5 on it’s own, it just so happened that the next day I watched AMC’s Interview with the Vampire and noticed quite a few overlaps in the style and plot, and the originality I felt with the plotline dampened somewhat. It became more of a retelling than a story of it’s own.
A few of my favorite quotes:
Up until these two books I hadn’t realized Victoria has actually been a published author since 2011 and has published 17 books in the past 14 years. I am absolutely a fan and plan to go back and read her debut novel now that I’ve read two of her most recents!
Who’s an author you fell in love with and HAD to go back and read the rest of their works?
-Anna R.
Other Reviews written by V.E. Schwab: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
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