Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab My rating: 5 of 5 stars Like a well planned meal, it leaves you satisfied but hungry for more V.E. Schwab pulled me in quietly at first, but it didn't take long before I was wholly consumed—I couldn’t stop reading, and I haven’t stopped thinking about it since. It weaves the haunting, beautiful stories of three women across five centuries—each one searching for freedom, for love, for meaning in the endless stretch of immortality—and it does so with a lyrical, almost hypnotic quality that reminded me why I ever fell in love with vampire stories in the first place. Maria/Sabine, Charlotte, and Alice aren’t just connected by blood—they’re linked by longing, heartbreak, and the ache of what it means to truly live when life never ends. It’s dark, it’s Gothic, and it’s devastating in the most breathtaking way. Even after the final page, I found myself craving more, as if the story itself left its own s...