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Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

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4.24 AVERAGE

coraliep97's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

peraugus's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

jedman's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous dark mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

merethryth's review against another edition

3.5

dark emotional sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

laura_nicole's review

2.5

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I should have listened to the reviews that said “no plot, just vibes”. The premise seems interesting, three toxic lesbian vampires? Sign me up. But the story didn’t really do it for me. It was a little too slow paced for me and I’m not really a fan of third person books. The story was very beautifully written tho

souplad's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

lilbookowl's review against another edition

2.5

dark emotional sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A

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I'm honestly disappointed in this one.. Everyone kept comparing it to Adie Larue which I loved that one but this just did not hit for me. I liked the first 40-50% of it but then towards the end it just fell flat.
I'm tired of reading books where books have such a slow pacing but then the authors rush the ending it's driving me crazy. I didn't care for Alice's parts at all they were extremely dull and just didn't connect to her.. I liked Sabines POVs up until a certain point but it felt very repetitive. I don't know I was just expecting more and instead it was just okay.
Also

you're telling me Alice was just able to kill a 500 hundred year old vampire so effortlessly?? I'm not buying that at all.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Grief, Murder

sydneystorm's review against another edition

4.0

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agh this WAS a five star book right up until the end

jujubeanoncaffi3ne's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

rubina00's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes