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Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

By: V. E. Schwab
Narrated by: Marisa Calin, Katie Leung, Julia Whelan
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Brought to life by a captivating multi-cast narration, with spellbinding performances from the award-winning Julia Whelan, Katie Leung (Harry Potter) and Marisa Calin.

From V. E. Schwab, the No. 1 Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue: a new genre-defying, unforgettable novel to sink your teeth into . . .


This is a story about hunger.
1532. Santo Domingo de la Calzada.
A young girl grows up wild and wily—her beauty is only outmatched by her dreams of escape. But María knows she can only ever be a prize, or a pawn, in the games played by men. When an alluring stranger offers an alternate path, María makes a desperate choice. She vows to have no regrets.

This is a story about love.
1827. London.
A young woman lives an idyllic but cloistered life on her family’s estate, until a moment of forbidden intimacy sees her shipped off to London. Charlotte’s tender heart and seemingly impossible wishes are swept away by an invitation from a beautiful widow—but the price of freedom is higher than she could have imagined.

This is a story about rage.
2019. Boston.
College was supposed to be her chance to be someone new. That’s why Alice moved halfway across the world, leaving her old life behind. But after an out-of-character one-night stand leaves her questioning her past, her present, and her future, Alice throws herself into the hunt for answers . . . and revenge.

This is a story about life—
how it ends, and how it starts.



V. E. Schwab's The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 05/10/2020

©2025 V. E. Schwab (P)2025 Macmillan Publishers International Limited
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Editorial Review

What grows when you bury the bones
Some listens just leave you quiet, with nothing but the sound of your heartbeat filling the space. Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil did exactly that. It’s beautiful and painful and so full of longing: for freedom, for love, for a life that feels like your own. Told across three timelines, the story is layered and intimate, with characters whose lives twist around each other in ways that are heartbreaking, brilliant, and just a little toxic (okay, okay, a lot toxic). Self-care looked like not hitting pause—because when I did, I couldn’t stop thinking about it. Julia Whelan, Katie Leung, and Marisa Calin bring it all to life with performances that flow together as seamlessly as the stories of María, Charlotte, and Alice. I finished it and just kept thinking: WOW, this is truly something special. —Patty R., Audible Editor

Critic reviews

Nobody can write like V. E. Schwab . . . an unmissable addition to your To Be Read pile (Jodi Picoult, author of My Sister's Keeper, on Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil)
Compulsively readable . . . surprises in a few new ways, each of them a delight - Locus Magazine on Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
Lush, gorgeous prose and a gripping take on the vampire that pays homage to the greats while doing something deliciously new - Lex Croucher on Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
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The voice artist playing Charlotte is unfortunately very off putting. There is a breathy and questioning tone to every sentence that she reads and her sentences are spoken out of place and disjointed. A beautiful book but taken completely out of the story when she started speaking which is a shame.

A beautifully written and mostly beautifully read book

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I loved this story. I was bereft when it finished. Schwab is a story teller extraordinaire.

Compelling

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i really, really wanted to pove this book.
i cant fault thd writing style but had issues warming to 2 of the 3 characters. i found the character of alice totally lacking in depth and the constant flashbacks with her were confusing and more of an annoyance than anything.
i found the final scenes rushed and underwealming

id have much preffered a dedicated story focusing just about sabine, i wanted to know more about her and the people she met than anything

underwealming and rushed

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4.5 ⭐️

This isn’t a love story. It’s a story about love. But also a story of betrayal, life, humanity, hunger, passion, pain, jealousy, rebirth, loneliness, and death.

It’s a story about toxic lesbian vampires told like no other, weaving together 3 separate stories across time.

My second VE Schwab book ever and it was everything I wanted and more.

The audiobook was also incredible and had some of my favourite narrators.

Mesmerising. Captivating. Beautifully haunting.

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I came to like v e Schwab after reading and loving Addie Larue but nothing will ever live up to that book. This book reminds me of interview with a vampire with a sprinkling of larue. To me it’s a 4 star a pleasurable read but no larue.

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I found myself routing for each of these girls throughout the book at different times of the story. But as the story came together that changed, along with the characters. Surprisingly, the most gut wrenching quote came from Jocelyn in the way of “did you find someone brave enough to love you?” . A close second was Lottie in the roof top 😭💔

Each of them were sad, tragic, hopeful, deserving of more than what life had dealt them. In their deaths, Victoria dealt them a whole other bag of issues.

What a riveting story. As always, Victoria has the most beautiful way with words and her sentences are so beautiful and descriptive.

Another masterpiece from V. E. Schwab I

Powerful storybook

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When a student falls for a beautiful young woman one night and brings her home, she cannot anticipate the consequences. For Alice is the latest chapter and twist in a tale that connects three women over time, all caught up in bloody murders as they remake their lives and stories, hungry for freedom. Love, passions and death intertwine this dark and gory yet spellbinding fable. Let yourself be thrown down by VE Schwab and left to the mercy of her storytelling as she immerses you in a pulsating adventure where lines blur between freedom and bonds, love and obsession , and play versus prey. Blood thirsty and compelling.

Blooming Blood

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Really disappointed, love this writer but this is not their best work. A pretty basic vampire story with some lesbian love scenes thrown in.

Fairly bland vampire story

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