10-14-2025, 01:58 PM
I keep forgetting I don't think Schwab is all that good and keep getting her books from the library, case in point "Bury our Bones in the Midnight Soil".
I kept telling myself to stop reading this book because I wasn't enjoying it very much, but I'm no quitter. Or I'm a glutton for punishment. It's a female vampire book. We start with a medieval vampire then we get a modern day vampire and almost to the end we get a victorian age vampire. Sabine from medieval Spain takes up the majority of the book. It is her first several hundred years as a vampire and I felt like I was experiencing her life in real time. Nothing really happens to her. Or nothing exciting. She meets other vampires. She learns the vampire ropes. She remains selfish and vain. It is not someone you want to spend time with.
Then there is Alice our present day vampire from Scotland currently going to Harvard. She has a miserable life which includes flash back to her childhood. She becomes a vampire and that doesn't make life any better for her. We spend a lot of time with her trying to track down Charlotte, our third vampire, who made Alice a vampire during a one night stand. Alice gets to learn the ropes of being a vampire before finding Ezra who helps her to find Charlotte. When we meet up with Charlotte we get more pages of her being a vampire and learning to be a vampire and how she met Sabine which is why we are in the mess we are in now.
It just kept going and going. The conflict never really drew me in.
I was glad when I finished and returned it to the library.
I kept telling myself to stop reading this book because I wasn't enjoying it very much, but I'm no quitter. Or I'm a glutton for punishment. It's a female vampire book. We start with a medieval vampire then we get a modern day vampire and almost to the end we get a victorian age vampire. Sabine from medieval Spain takes up the majority of the book. It is her first several hundred years as a vampire and I felt like I was experiencing her life in real time. Nothing really happens to her. Or nothing exciting. She meets other vampires. She learns the vampire ropes. She remains selfish and vain. It is not someone you want to spend time with.
Then there is Alice our present day vampire from Scotland currently going to Harvard. She has a miserable life which includes flash back to her childhood. She becomes a vampire and that doesn't make life any better for her. We spend a lot of time with her trying to track down Charlotte, our third vampire, who made Alice a vampire during a one night stand. Alice gets to learn the ropes of being a vampire before finding Ezra who helps her to find Charlotte. When we meet up with Charlotte we get more pages of her being a vampire and learning to be a vampire and how she met Sabine which is why we are in the mess we are in now.
It just kept going and going. The conflict never really drew me in.
I was glad when I finished and returned it to the library.
As a matter of fact, my anger does keep me warm