Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

Still savouring this cherry pip of a book.

Schwab and immortal women are a perfect pair in my books. Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil is a bruising, dark look at the cost of immortality, on love taken and freely given. It takes traditional vampire lore and spins it with just enough of a fresh twist that you will sink sharp teeth deeply into the world.

I love Schwab's historical fiction, it's atmospheric, vivid, and lights up on the page. But I must confess that I struggled with the modern chapters. I loved Alice's character arc in the end but it didn't quite have the same punch as Sabine and Lottie. Sabine was intoxicating and brutal just as she demands to be and her chapters were by far my favourite, even despite the darkness.