Alchemised

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Alchemised

Auteur(s): SenLinYu

Narrateur(s): Saskia Maarleveld

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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.

Fantaisie noire

Fantastique

Horreur

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Le meilleur de 2025

Épouvante

Magique

Sincère

Émotionnellement captivant

Émouvant

Nécromancie

Guerre

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Editorial Review

I’d give anything to experience this story for the first time again

I went into Alchemised expecting something dark and immersive, but what I got was a story that completely consumed me in the greatest possible way. This is not a light listen. It’s brutal, emotionally relentless, and beautifully written (check trigger warnings, and please be kind to yourself as you listen). Helena Marino is a former Resistance healer now imprisoned in a world ruled by corrupt necromancers and fractured by war. Her memories are missing, and the truth she’s forgotten may be more dangerous than anyone realizes. I had to stop, breathe, and sit with my feelings during some emotionally intense moments before continuing. Saskia Maarleveld’s performance was the icing on top of this already all-consuming debut. And that ending? I clapped while I cried because I couldn’t believe the journey we had just taken.—Patty R., Audible Editor

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Narration is amazing!!! Finally a reader who speaks at a more normal human speed 😍

Detailed and thorough world building, with a complex and nuanced “nobody was completely good/right… some bad guys were justified, some good guys went too far, eventually everyone lost sight of their morals in order to just win at all costs” view of the war. The sense of bleak hopelessness in realizing “winning” wasn’t worth it is hauntingly woven throughout and has suchhhh deep impacts on every character (not just a “yeah it was awful and people died, but anyways, back to the adventure!” Style often seen in modern fiction and especially modern romantasy). The characters are shaped by their pre-war pasts, which are complex and nuanced with prejudice, allowing room for them to now be adults with regrets and insecurities about choices years before the book even takes place, but that have real impacts on how they respond when they had/have no “good” options, but still have to choose a path forwards. The hard choices they’re forced to make on page also TRULY change them irrevocably and you can see the characters evolving in response to everything they’re faced with.

So much happens “between the lines” of the writing, the author does a masterful job of subtle “show don’t tell” throughout the whole story. Establishing the distrust/paranoia between “allies” we meet is so well done, allowing the reader to dig into what could be happening “elsewhere” and to determine the alignments and motives of the secondary characters. I LOVE that the author doesn’t spell things out like they expect readers to be complete idiots who will miss any clues more subtle than a brick to the face.

I think the bad reviews may have expected the “brain off” type of fantasy/romantasy with happy endings and lots of rainbows to break up the clouds. This book is a dark adult fantasy about the horror of post-war society under a dictatorship…. It’s meant to be bleak and complex. If that’s not your vibe, this one’s not for you.