Alchemised

De: SenLinYu

Narrado por: Saskia Maarleveld

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.

©2025 SenLinYu (P)2025 Random House Audio

Flayed me alive

I read manacled so I knew what I was getting into. And I happily let this author turn me inside out a second time. Honestly much of it is the same, and I loved that because the bones were so good. It’s rather dense on world building and magic systems so I wouldn’t recommend this for people brand new to fantasy. This is the single best piece of literary commentary on the real price of war I’ve ever read. This a graphic read so please check your trigger warnings. You will cry, you will scream, and you will stare blankly at the wall for days when you are done. And it is absolutely worth it

Looking for content warnings because they're in the worst location. see this review.

I enjoyed this story very much though it is is a devastating story and knew roughly what I was getting into. However for the sake of transparency for others this title has content warnings to are ignorantly located at the end of the book making them inaccessible for anyone utilizing the sample features for ebook and/or audiobook. On a review platform this title is penalized for the warnings location. I have opted to transcribe them in hopes that they are found useful to someone.

"Alchemised is a work of dark fantasy containing wartime violence, religious abuse, depictions of complex trauma, suicidal ideation,self harm, human experimentation, medical torture, eugenics, cannibalism, sexual assault, rape, and allusions to necrophilia. Please remember that depiction is not authorial endorsement. Because Alchemists is a limited third person point of view it necessarily involves some distortions of vision as well as messed or misconstrued events. Reader discretion is advised."

Aggravating narrator

I'm so disappointed in this choice of a narrator. She has this awful whispering rasp that makes me want to turn it off completely. Having to play it fast just to get through.

AMAZING

Loved every minute, the story is great well written and I love that it was still along the same lines of inspiration but also its own

absolutely loved it

the narrator was perfection and was able to bring my favorite story to life. the story was amazing and I loved it

Loved this!

Absolutely loved this audiobook! I wish I had read it first. this will be a book I will read or listen to again and again.

Wow

I absolutely loved this book. So wonderfully written. These characters will live with me. Narrator was very good as well

Beautiful

One of the most beautiful stories ever written, will forever be in my heart and mind

The best book I ever read!

This book is a masterpiece! It's so davestatingly tragic but so beautiful at the same time. The narrator did an amazing job.

Loved it more than Manacled

I previously read Manacled and loved it/was utterly destroyed by it. I have to say that I enjoyed this even more.