Hannah’s Pick of the Week: Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab

‘The scent of fresh-baked bread and roasted meat drifts toward her, and hunger blooms, sudden and bright, but when she moves toward the table, Andrés catches her wrist. “Leave it,” he says again, and María knows, by the tone of his voice, that his hunger has a different shape.‘

V.E. Schwab, Bury Our Bones in The Midnight Soil, pg. 47

A story about hunger; about love; about revenge; and the thread of immortality that binds them together. Evidently, 2025 has been a year dedicated to hunger, and I’m not talking about the cookbooks splayed on my kitchen table. Hunger has splashed across the pages of 2025’s most anticipated reads, from cannibalistic mother-daughter duos, to maddening desire.

Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil is one of those reads — weaving the stories of María, Charlotte, and Alice together across centuries and half the globe. María craves a winding path during the Spanish Renaissance, and will do whatever it takes to avoid a fate she feels she doesn’t deserve. She has never felt full. Charlotte keeps her heart on her sleeve, a Georgian-era Romantic who faces a world that will break her again and again. Finally, Alice reinvents herself in 21st-century Boston — New Alice is not afraid of existing in her body, at least until a one-night stand leads Alice on a quest for answers. María, Charlotte, and Alice have stories intertwined deep below the surface, the roots of their hunger tied up in each other, in knots.

Undoubtedly, the building of the world of these three women is a monument to their grief, their desire and their poisonous connection to one another. Whereas Schwab’s The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue focuses on the loneliness and isolation of immortality, Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil instead sets its sights on the rage. What do you give up when you lose the thing that makes you the most human? This book is the perfect next read after A Dowry of Blood by S. T. Gibson or Hungerstone by Kat Dunn.