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Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
by V.E. Schwab
adventurous
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Loveable characters:
Yes
V.E. Schwab my beloved, we are soooo back
Sapphic Interview with the Vampire meets A Dowry of Blood, Lucy Undying, & Carmilla I’m so serious
This was a sapphic vampire tale filled with the trials of girlhood, the violence of men, and the desperate hope to escape womanhood and all of the horrors that it entails. It showcases sapphic abuse in a way that (as someone who experienced it) made me feel deeply seen. It showcased vampirism as freedom from gender/societal norms, as seething obsession and toxicity that sucks the very life from you. I truly could go on and on.
Positives:
- the writing was honestly beautiful. So many lines were breathtaking & I annotated so much of it. I know there are critiques that at times it read slow/repetitive, but personally the pacing was just right for me.
- Sabine… my tragic Lestat-coded beloved…. I both hate you and love you and my heart breaks for your journey
- Charlotte my angel who deserved the world and so much more and so much better
- I adored all of the different historical elements interwoven into this & how different it tonally made the story feel throughout…. I truly was so locked in.
- I feel like Schwab really heard some of the Addie Larue critiques and showed growth in a lot of ways as a response
Negatives:
- the biggest thing that bothered me was how truly anticlimactic and honestly kind of disappointing the ending felt after such a tremendous and masterful build up and interwoven story. It really read quite rushed in the end.
- I also didn’t particularly enjoy Alice’s perspectives, or her as a character all that much. I found it a little hard to fully sympathize with her & I think that while there was so much put into Sabine & Charlottes characterizations and stories to really pull you in, Alice’s was left a little lacking which really took me out of her chapters and also contributed to the ending feeling unearned.
My Schwab rating out of her books that I’ve read:
- Vengeful
- Vicious
- Bury Our Bones under the Midnight Soil/Addie Larue (can’t decide deal with it)
- A Darker Shade of Magic
- A Gathering of Shadows
- Gallant (DNF’d)
Sapphic Interview with the Vampire meets A Dowry of Blood, Lucy Undying, & Carmilla I’m so serious
This was a sapphic vampire tale filled with the trials of girlhood, the violence of men, and the desperate hope to escape womanhood and all of the horrors that it entails. It showcases sapphic abuse in a way that (as someone who experienced it) made me feel deeply seen. It showcased vampirism as freedom from gender/societal norms, as seething obsession and toxicity that sucks the very life from you. I truly could go on and on.
Positives:
- the writing was honestly beautiful. So many lines were breathtaking & I annotated so much of it. I know there are critiques that at times it read slow/repetitive, but personally the pacing was just right for me.
- Sabine… my tragic Lestat-coded beloved…. I both hate you and love you and my heart breaks for your journey
- Charlotte my angel who deserved the world and so much more and so much better
- I adored all of the different historical elements interwoven into this & how different it tonally made the story feel throughout…. I truly was so locked in.
- I feel like Schwab really heard some of the Addie Larue critiques and showed growth in a lot of ways as a response
Negatives:
- the biggest thing that bothered me was how truly anticlimactic and honestly kind of disappointing the ending felt after such a tremendous and masterful build up and interwoven story. It really read quite rushed in the end.
- I also didn’t particularly enjoy Alice’s perspectives, or her as a character all that much. I found it a little hard to fully sympathize with her & I think that while there was so much put into Sabine & Charlottes characterizations and stories to really pull you in, Alice’s was left a little lacking which really took me out of her chapters and also contributed to the ending feeling unearned.
My Schwab rating out of her books that I’ve read:
- Vengeful
- Vicious
- Bury Our Bones under the Midnight Soil/Addie Larue (can’t decide deal with it)
- A Darker Shade of Magic
- A Gathering of Shadows
- Gallant (DNF’d)