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My spoiler-free thoughts on Bury Our Bones In The Midnight Soil It was exactly what VE Schwab said it was. Toxic lesbian vampires. Toxic. Booktok has just conflated and romanticized “toxicity” to the point where we think it synonymous with consentual kink
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Anonymous 4w

I’ve seen a lot of people upset that the book is too angsty and just tragedy after tragedy, and claiming that it was mismarketed because they were expecting a Gideon The Ninth style “i’m going to pretend to dislike you” cheeky romance. But we were told from the beginning that it was not a romance, but a toxic relationship. We shouldn’t assume that “toxic” means hot and dark but overall healthy enemies to lovers. BOBITMS was absolutely a toxic relationship story, but it doesn’t romanticize it.

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Anonymous 4w

I COMPLETELY AGREE

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Anonymous 4w

Ooo now i want to read it, I love books that don’t romanticize toxicity

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 4w

Like I feel like a lot of the criticism the book receives boils down to “I usually like books with stalking and emotional manipulation, but this one was disappointing because the stalking wasn’t hot.”

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Anonymous replying to -> forget_me_not 4w

I highly recommend! It's a fun read

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