The Vampire Novel About Wanting Too Much

This episode reviews Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil as a vampire novel less interested in glamour than in hunger. V. E. Schwab uses immortality to explore queer desire, loneliness, power, and the terrible freedom of wanting a life larger than the one society allows. In under three minutes, the episode asks whether becoming monstrous is sometimes the only language left for women who were never allowed to want openly.