Alchemised
#1 New York Times bestseller
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4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
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Publisher Description
In this riveting dark fantasy debut, a woman with missing memories fights to survive a war-torn world of necromancy and alchemy—and the man tasked with unearthing the deepest secrets of her past.
“What is it you think you’re protecting in that brain of yours? The war is over. Holdfast is dead. The Eternal Flame extinguished. There’s no one left for you to save.”
Once a promising alchemist, Helena Marino is now a prisoner—of war and of her own mind. Her Resistance friends and allies have been brutally murdered, her abilities suppressed, and the world she knew destroyed.
In the aftermath of a long war, Paladia’s new ruling class of corrupt guild families and depraved necromancers, whose vile undead creatures helped bring about their victory, holds Helena captive.
According to Resistance records, she was a healer of little importance within their ranks. But Helena has inexplicable memory loss of the months leading up to her capture, making her enemies wonder: Is she truly as insignificant as she appears, or are her lost memories hiding some vital piece of the Resistance’s final gambit?
To uncover the memories buried deep within her mind, Helena is sent to the High Reeve, one of the most powerful and ruthless necromancers in this new world. Trapped on his crumbling estate, Helena’s fight—to protect her lost history and to preserve the last remaining shreds of her former self—is just beginning. For her prison and captor have secrets of their own . . . secrets Helena must unearth, whatever the cost.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
This dark and twisted fantasy already has an established fan base because it’s adapted from an exceptionally popular work of fan fiction inspired by a well-known fantasy series. But even if you come into this story completely cold, you will still be magically compelled by the complex and painful bond between a torturer and his prisoner. The Resistance against the High Necromancer has been crushed, and healer Helena Marino has fallen into the hands of Kaine Ferron, the High Necromancer’s trusted lieutenant. His primary mission is to pry out the two years’ worth of memories that are alchemically locked within her brain—and as inaccessible to her as they are to everyone else. His secondary mission is to make her pregnant, as there is a shortage of alchemists. As their distorted present-day relationship progresses, Helena’s memories gradually reveal the dark secrets of their past relationship and her hidden role within the group known as the Eternal Flame. This book is the antithesis to the usual happily ever after. If you seek the flames of romance burning palely from an abyss of gore, emotional and physical torment, and the highest degree of angst you could possibly imagine, you’ll find them here.
Customer Reviews
Loved it
So amazing. I didn’t want to leave their world. I am very sad now that it’s over.
Broken
This may have been the best book I’ve read in a decade.
Disorganized and poorly written
** SPOILER ALERT ** The author takes time developing the characters in the 2nd part and then leaves so many things hanging it’s manic. Helena heals Kaine with her amulet and his appearance changes from almost dead and black to silver and no one on the undying side notices or questions the change. When Luc disappears and they go to save him no one questions Helena’s sudden ability to fight as a healer or that Kaine helped save them. Surely Helena wasn’t the only one who saw Kaine there. When they return back to headquarters, Luc flings Helena across a room and knocks her out for using necromancy on Soren. Luc practices pyromancy but, suddenly gains unimaginable strength against Helena. Headquarters had no idea Luc was dead when they returned him home. Isn’t that what Helena’s skills are … sensing resonance? Put the book down at 800 pages and walked away. Stephen King writes better books and uses those thousand pages wisely.