Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
by V.E. Schwab (Tor, 2025)
audiobook read by Julia Whelan, Katie Leung & Marisa Calin (Macmillan, 2025)
This feminist vampire take should be compelling, but loses its power somewhat as the spirit of repressed uprising rots away to reveal a downbeat metaphor for toxic self-centredness. While a lengthy perspective is justified, Schwab’s characterisation of Sabine is belaboured and disproportional.