What readers think of Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil, plus links to write your own review.

It's Pride Month so am trying to read books in the LGBTQ genre. This one fits that and it's a winner. First, I love vampire books - so if you don't, this might not be for you. Second, this book while exploring themes of queer love, focuses also on identity, hunger - for blood but more for freedom as women and as lesbians, and longing. Three women's collide in this book: Maria aka Sabine, a beautiful girl in 16th C Spain, Lottie, a lonely Regency English girl whose love for her friend thrusts her into "the 1827 season," and Alice, a 21st Scottish girl away at school (Harvard). Each woman seeks to live and love freely and in two cases freely choose vampirism. Alice, however, is a victim of a feud. The story is propulsive and compelling. It explores what makes us human and vampirism is a theme that ties these women together because it allows them to be bodily autonomous and free from societal oppression. However, this also can trap them into longing for humanness and things of the past. Sabine is a vile character; Charlotte or Lottie, while seemingly innocent and desperate to leave Sabine behind, is no better than Sabine - selfish and self-absorbed. Alice, with the story of her sister, Catty, woven into the story as an example of what it means to be mortal and why she seeks to return to being human. The descriptions of the places and times in which Sabine and Lottie live are delightful. It is a well written but long book which I found most enjoyable to read.