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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)
"A vicious take on feminism, love and what it costs to survive. Bloody brilliant!"
-Stephanie Staton, Coffee Tree Books"I can confirm that these vampires were definitely lesbian and definitely toxic."
-Lucy N., Blue Willow Bookshop"The sapphic
Interview with the Vampire we didn't know we needed."
-Kate Larson, Ballast Book Company
"About hunger and rage and grief and our soul deep need for connection."
-Lauren Wright, Clayton County Library
"V. E. Schwab is a cruel and brilliant storyteller… Her characters bleed from these pages and wrap a fist around your heart until you're left breathless and empty."
-Meghan Molinari, Lark & Owl Booksellers
Praise for The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue: "Completely absorbed me enough to make me forget the real world." --
Jodi Picoult "Victoria Schwab sends you whirling through a dizzying kaleidoscopic adventure through centuries filled with love, loss, art and war -- all the while dazzling your senses with hundreds of tiny magical moments along the way.
The Invisible Life of Addie Larue will enchant readers as deeply as its heroine's Faustian bargain; you will find yourself in quick turns both aching with heartbreak, and gleefully crowing at the truly delicious, wicked cleverness in store." --
Naomi Novik "
Addie Larue is a book perfectly suspended between darkness and light, myth and reality. [This novel] is--ironically--unforgettable." --
Alix E. Harrow, author of Starling House "The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue is the kind of book you encounter only once in a lifetime. . . . A defiant, joyous rebellion against time, fate, and even death itself--and a powerful reminder that the only magic great enough to conquer all of it is love."--
Peng Shepherd, author of The Cartographers "One of the most propulsive, compulsive and captivating novels in recent memory."--
Washington Post "It's a bit cheeky to call
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue Faust for romantic bisexual goths, but it's not wrong... I for one will most certainly remember her."
--NPR "Addie is unlike anything Schwab has written before--epic yet intimate, sweeping but not sprawling... If
Addie shows anything, it's that the impact of our actions and interactions can be vaster and longer-lasting than we can predict. Much like the seven freckles that sprinkle Addie's face, we create our own constellations, and as we live through these darkened days, I feel brighter for having added
Addie to mine."--
Slate "Schwab's writing is warm and intense, and the passages set in the past often make you feel as if you're reading by candlelight...The book is an elegant comment on the erasure of women from recorded history, but not a pointed one; you never feel that Addie LaRue is a metaphor. She is a woman fighting literally to be seen while bearing witness to her own life, and I rooted for her throughout."--
New York Times Book Review "Irresistibly contagious." --
Locus Magazine "Schwab's page-turner is an achingly poignant romantic fantasy about the desperate desire to make one's mark on the world."
--Oprah.com, Best LGBTQ Books of 2020
