Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil is a complicated story of three women from different eras. First, you have Sabine, who we first meet in Spain in 1532. She is a woman who craves independence, living in a time when that wasn’t really an option for them. She gets out of our small town by marrying up, only to find she has less freedom than before. Lottie, in London, 1827. Lottie, growing up in the Regency era, is being forced to marry and is desperate to get out, and finally, Alice in Boston in 2019. Alice is trying to make a new life after a tragedy. We go back and forth between their POV’s as we try to discover how they are all connected. Through their narratives, we see how they navigate their societies as women as they try to live life on their own terms. The thread begins with Sabine, who is turned into a Vampire because she is desperate to escape an unhappy marriage. She starts to travel as a widow because, in her time, it was considered appropriate for women to live alone. Lottie is also turned into a vampire because she sees it as a way to live the life she wants to live and love the woman she wants to love. The saddest of them is Alice, who is turned without her consent. Unlike Sabine and Lottie, who chose to be turned, Alice did not. Alice goes to a party, has a one-night stand with a girl, and wakes up a vampire. She doesn’t know how this happened or why, and is caught in a centuries-long battle that has nothing to do with her. This book is a good examination on historical struggles of women and the violence they have to endure. I do like the ending. It is not at all a happy ending but kind of a bit hopeful for Alice to exert her own authority as she now will move through the world on her own journey.