Collected's TWELVE BOOKS OF CHRISTMAS | Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil - V. E. Schwab

COLLECTED LOVES... Rarely does fantasy truly impress on the level of literary fiction. V. E. Schwab has well and truly created an impressive, cross-century vampire story that has the complexity to rival epic fantasy and lit fic alike but the yearning to rival Twilight. Sabine is truly toxic but absolutely alluring, Charlotte desperate and trusting... what blossoms between them is both beautiful and horrifying. Schwab can make any setting sing - those who appreciate beautiful lyricism and expert scene-setting will apreciate Schwab's masterful style! Truly Gothic, truly expert, truly DELICIOUS.

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1532. Santo Domingo de la Calzada. A young girl grows up wild and wily - her beauty is only outmatched by her dreams of escape. But María knows she can only ever be a prize, or a pawn, in the games played by men. When an alluring stranger offers an alternate path, María makes a desperate choice. She vows to have no regrets. This is a story about love.

1827. London. A young woman lives an idyllic but cloistered life on her family’s estate, until a moment of forbidden intimacy sees her shipped off to London. Charlotte’s tender heart and seemingly impossible wishes are swept away by an invitation from a beautiful widow - but the price of freedom is higher than she could have imagined. This is a story about rage.

2019. Boston. College was supposed to be her chance to be someone new. That’s why Alice moved halfway across the world, leaving her old life behind. But after an out-of-character one-night stand leaves her questioning her past, her present, and her future, Alice throws herself into the hunt for answers... and revenge. This is a story about life... how it ends, and how it starts again.

Utterly unmissable, this is a twisting, gothic tale of immortality and hunger.