Welcome to The Scroll , a new column that checks in with your favorite writers, asking them to exclusively reveal and annotate the best moments from their brand new books. We also get them to dish on their writing process and divulge a few plot secrets along the way.

This round we chatted with V.E. Schwab , author of the iconic Villians series and The Secret Life of Addie LaRue . The author is changing what we thought we knew about our favorite creatures s tarting with a different kind of vampire story in her new novel Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil . Here, she shares an exclusive excerpt and talks about the power of writing hungry and vulnerable villains.

This book is similar to The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue , where you reinvented some genre norms.

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