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The recording breaking debut and instant Sunday Times bestseller

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Alchemised

De : SenLinYu
Lu par : Saskia Maarleveld
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***The record-breaking debut and instant Sunday Times Bestseller***

In a world ruled by necromancers, a woman with missing memories threatens the dark order that keeps her captive - and the man sent to break her. Gothic in tone, epic in scope - this debut is destined to become a modern classic.

Once a promising alchemist, Helena Marino is now a prisoner – of war and of her own fractured mind. The Resistance is crushed, her allies dead, her abilities suppressed.

The world she knew is gone.

Paladia’s corrupt guild families and their necromancer overlords, aided by vile undead creatures now rule - and hold Helena captive.

Resistance records claim she was a healer of little importance. Yet, Helena’s inexplicable memory loss makes her enemies wonder: Is she truly insignificant, or do her missing memories conceal the Resistance’s final secret?

To uncover the truth, Helena is delivered into the hands of the High Reeve – Paladia’s most feared and merciless necromancer.

Trapped on his crumbling estate, she must fight to protect what remains of herself and unearth the secrets buried in her mind, her prison, and her captor . . . whatever the cost.

‘A work of quite staggering ambition. Detailed world-building, intricate plot, Gothic claustrophobia, wraps the readers in its dark embrace’ Daily Mail

‘A superb dark fantasy novel set in a war torn world of black magic and alchemy’ Sun

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A work of quite staggering ambition. Detailed world-building, intricate plot, Gothic claustrophobia, wraps the readers in its dark embrace
Very readable
A superb dark fantasy novel set in a war torn world of black magic and alchemy
Tout
Le plus pertinent
It was perfect. Loved every aspect of it. I don’t know how I will get over it.

Favourite book of the year

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Just fantastic. So believable character development it was beautifully painful to live through. World-building that holds it's own (a reread might do me good to grasp some aspects better, but it's been a long time i didn't see so much thought going into the systems within a book in this category/genre). Some lines that force us to face the decisions we make in our own world. A perfected homage to the source fanfic... Oh yes a few remarks can be made but won't deter the read. It. Was. Just. Fantastic.

Fantastic

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Düster, leidenschaftlich, beklemmend, verzehrend und intensiv. Eine Geschichte, die mich nicht mehr losgelassen hat. Großartig!

Mitreißend und fesselnd

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I am 10 hours in, and I don't think I am going to finish this book. Some reviews led me to believe that the book was something it wasn't (someone evoked Lord of the Rings and The Wheel of Time; press reviews indicated a Gothic tone, a sense of claustrophobia, and that this novel might become a modern classic). I expected something a bit more artistic or psychological.

For me, this is a young adult novel (akin to A Court of Thorns and Roses) with original world building and... a lot of tropes that I don't like.
Since I was not the target audience, I rated it 4/5.

This book may not be for you if:
- You are drawn to more classical fantasy
- You dislike unhealthy/angsty relationship dynamics between the MMC and FMC
- You dislike breathy, raspy narration (voice acting)
- You don't like fantasy where romance takes up too much space
- You don't want to see 2 horny main characters
- You need complex characters (more than 2 developed characters, where "complex" doesn't only mean "mentally unstable").
(Reminder: I did not read the full book, and other comments indicate character growth.)

misleading reviews

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Never being able to know if it'll go wrong, or how wrong it will go. Until the end, the tension is palpable. I'm used to more classical epic fantasy (LotR, WoT, and the like) but this book, more centered on the characters themselves than on the action (without lacking it), was a nice surprise for me.

Dark and enticing

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