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Alchemised

SenLinYu

Start date: October 1, 2025

Finish date: October 31, 2025

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Dec 05, 2025 Sarah E B ʚ♡ɞ added it · review of another edition

Shelves: animals-dragons-monsters, fantasy-and-other-dorky-stuff, i-heart-my-public-library, girls-kicking-ass-and-taking-names, a-touch-of-fantasy, about-zombies-purple-people-eaters, romantasy, magic-user, ancient-evil, mysterious-monsters

Hiatus 44%, the book needed to be returned to my local library.
midway thoughts:
Enjoying it so far, but there are a few things :
*I am still trying to figure out how the world (that part might be on me, lol)
*I am in the middle of a month-by-month flashback, which is a slog to read as of the writing of this comment.

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Oct 14, 2025 Alex Hagerty rated it it was amazing

Shelves: 5-star-reads

A literal masterpiece. This book stabbed me in the chest and twisted the knife about a thousand times. I feel sick. I am deceased and require financial compensation. Read this if you like to suffer😭♥️

This is not just a romance. The devastating themes in this are REAL LIFE and that is what makes it so much more emotional. War, hope, corruption, patriarchy, loss, grief, love. The way history never gets it quite right.

Both Helena and Kaine are so humanly flawed characters. The mirrored conversation ...more

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Sep 29, 2025 Grace rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Heartbreaking, haunting, and devastatingly beautiful. My most anticipated release of 2025 by FAR exceeded my expectations. The world-building was immersive, the storytelling was imaginative and raw. I feel empty and wistful and generally awestruck; will need a moment to recover but I also can’t wait to read it all over again.

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Oct 04, 2025 Anastasia Dimaio rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Ok… lots of thoughts

I read manacled a couple years ago and it was my top read of that year. I love Harry Potter and dramoine.

I do feel like I love manacled more, but also just need to show some love for the author.

♥️

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