Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil, V. E. Schwab
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil, V. E. Schwab
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Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

Bestseller

Author: V. E. Schwab

Narrator: Julia Whelan, Katie Leung, Marisa Calin

Unabridged: 18 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/10/2025

Synopsis

This program is read by a full cast, including Grammy-winning narrator Julia Whelan, who has narrated over 600 audiobooks and is a multiple Audie and SOVAS Award winner; Marisa Calin, an Audie, Odyssey, and AudioFile Earphones Award winner; and Katie Leung, best known for her role as Cho Chang in Harry Potter.

From V. E. Schwab, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue: a new genre-defying novel about immortality and hunger.

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.

USA Today, 15 Most Anticipated of 2025
BookBub, Most Anticipated of 2025 (and Reader’s Pick)
Reader's Digest, 20 Most Anticipated Books This Year
Paste Magazine, Most Anticipated Fantasy Books of 2025
BookRiot, Most Anticipated Books of 2025
Men's Health, 25 Best & Most Anticipated Books of 2025
The Nerd Daily, SFF to Devour in 2025
Goodreads, Readers' Most Anticipated Books of 2025

A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Books.

About V. E. Schwab

VICTORIA “V. E.” SCHWAB is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than twenty books. Schwab's series and standalone titles for readers of all ages have made her a major literary figure, whose notable works include the Villains series, the Shades of Magic universe, and The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue. When not haunting Paris streets or writing in the corner of her favorite coffee shop, she lives in Edinburgh, Scotland.

About Julia Whelan

Having narrated over 600 audiobooks in all genres, Julia Whelan is, by industry standards, considered one of the top narrators recording today. She’s repeatedly featured on Audiofile's annual Best-Of Lists. She was named Audible’s Narrator of the Year in 2014 and is a Grammy-nominated audiobook director.Julia has acquired multiple Audies and SOVAS (Society of Voice Arts) Awards, including for the performance of her own novel, My Oxford Year. She has won dozens of Earphone Awards, The Audie Award for Best Female Narrator of 2019, and was presented with Audiofile’s Lifetime Achievement Golden Voice Award in 2020.She attributes her distinctive style of narration to her ongoing passion for literature fueled by her decades of acting experience.

About Marisa Calin

Marisa Calin is an actress, narrator, and novelist born in England and educated in New York at the American Academy of the Dramatic Arts. An artist with a flair for everything literary, she has written a young adult novel, You & Me, which received a Kirkus Starred Review, and has narrated the audio books Ruby Red and Sapphire Blue by Kerstin Gier.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Heather on March 09, 2025

I love toxic lesbian vampires. This is not only my new favorite VE Schwab book, but now one of my favorite books ever. How do I even express my love for this??? I feel like words can’t do it justice. I just loved it…plain and simple as that. Her writing made me feel like I was there with the charact......more

Goodreads review by Victoria on August 27, 2024

After Addie, I swore I’d never put so much of my actual self into a book, and then I went and did this. Stripped down to my heart and bones and built a novel out of it. Everything I loved and everything I wanted and everything I feared. It’s hard to process that one day some of you will read it too. I......more

Goodreads review by Rebecca on November 13, 2024

This is VE Schwab at the height of her powers writing her absolute best work, and this, my friends, is how you bring back vampires. Sexy, flawed, dangerous, and absolutely vicious (see what I did there?). The characters are enthralling, the story structure is very smart and keeps the pacing brisk. T......more

Goodreads review by Booksblabbering || Cait❣️ on April 08, 2025

If The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo and Dowry of Blood by ST Gibson had a baby guided by VE Schwab’s dark, magical hands, this is what you would get. Sapphic vampires, dual timelines, women ruling the night. “Bury my bones in the midnight soil, plant them shallow but water them deep, and in my place wi......more

Goodreads review by ClaudiaTalksFilm on May 11, 2025

4 and a half stars Ok ve schwab wtf this is INCREDIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!! as you can see I started this back in January, read about 40%, and put it down for something else at the time - then, I picked it back up 2 days ago, and DEMOLISHED IT. The second half of this book is UNBELIEVABLY gripping. Like the t......more

Quotes

"Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil crosses centuries, continents, and cultures to tell the story of three women…. whose afterlives are not what they expected. Vampire fiction the way it should be done, and a compellingly dark companion to the more life-affirming Addie LaRue." — Paste Magazine

"Schwab delicately intertwines the three storylines, which are compelling individually even before the reader knows how they will connect…..A beautiful meditation on queer identity against a supernatural backdrop." — Kirkus Reviews (starred)

"Schwab's fantasies are always a big draw, and this enticing tale of lesbian vampires that crosses centuries [is] irresistible." — Booklist

"Schwab’s haunting prose and character-driven plot will keep readers up until the very last page." — Library Journal (starred)

Praise for The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue:

"Completely absorbed me enough to make me forget the real world.” — Jodi Picoult

“A dizzying kaleidoscopic adventure.” — Naomi Novik

“Perfectly suspended between darkness and light, myth and reality.” — Alix E. Harrow

“One of the most propulsive, compulsive and captivating novels in recent memory.” — The Washington Post

“Epic yet intimate, sweeping but not sprawling… As we live through these darkened days, I feel brighter for having added Addie to mine.” — Slate

“Warm and intense… I rooted for Addie throughout.”— The New York Times Book Review

“Beautifully explores what it means to be alone.” — USA Today

“Irresistibly contagious.” — Locus Magazine

“An achingly poignant romantic fantasy about the desperate desire to make one’s mark on the world.” — Oprah.com

“The kind of book you encounter only once in a lifetime.” — Peng Shepherd

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