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When you read a V.E. Schwab book, you know you're in for a story with complicated, nuanced characters, and engaging pacing. Even with these elements at the heart of her writing, Schwab mixes it up in every book she writes. We're left eating well. And that sounds exactly like what we're going to get with her upcoming book, Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil. 

"I kept staring at this open grave left behind by Addie LaRue, by the book. I had dug this book out right from my head," Schwab began, during a panel last October at London's MCM Comic Con. "And now I just had this open plot. And I kept trying to throw things into it to make them grow. I kept trying to make a story grow in Addie's wake... One day, when I stopped trying to plant things in that grave, I noticed something growing up from beneath it, as if I had planted something long before Addie, and it just needed time to grow. Three young women over the course of 500 years - its nickname in my head is 'toxic lesbian vampires'... this is a book about immortality and hunger." 

Of course, only a writer like V.E. Schwab could describe the genesis of her new novel in such a wonderfully poetic way. But it truly is like that sometimes when you're a writer trying to move on from a story you had invested so many years of your life into. Schwab had my interest piqued when she said "toxic lesbian vampires," because that calls to mind the icon of lesbian literature herself, Carmilla, as well as Dark Horse's Carmilla graphic novel series by Amy Chu and Soo Lee. 

Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil is out June 10, 2025 wherever books are sold. 

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