In this sapphic dark fantasy about vampires, V.E. Schwab explores what makes us human, and what remains when our mortality is stripped from us. With incredible tenderness and vitality, we see the innermost lives of characters, as they experience the evolution of what life looks like when its transience disappears. Ultimately a meditation on love, relationships (romantic or otherwise), power, and humanity, Bury Our Bones In The Midnight Soil is a departure from the standard vampire romance. What I loved most about this book, besides lesbian vampires, is the way V.E. Schwab creates characters that are so real, with so much depth, you can almost taste them.

-Riley