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

Absolute Masterpiece!

This book is an absolute masterpiece and everyone should listen to this at least once in your life.

Manacled Adaptation

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Plot: 📖📖📖📖
Side Characters: 👯‍♂️👯‍♂️👯
Pacing: 🏎️🏎️.5
Ending: 🎬🎬🎬
Romance: 🩷🩷🩷🩷
MC’s: 👩🏽‍🤝‍👨🏼👫👫👫
Helena Marino - Kaine Ferron
Tropes:
📚War
📚Trauma
📚Enemies to Lovers to Enemies to Lovers
📚Fanfiction Adaptation
I did read all of the HP books. More than once actually. I have also read a ton of Dramione fanfiction including the INCREDIBLE MANACLED. This story and plot are the same as Manacled. There are differences but they aren’t plot related. Most of this book is just hard to get through. It could’ve been better if one of two things had happened:
1. The book was just shorter
2. More entertaining during the early world building as it took up most of the book
The chapters are extremely long so keep that in mind when I say it got at least more interesting around chapter 10. Chapter 24 picks up and we have a few different things happening that make the book more engaging. In part 3, I was hooked. This is days of reading at this point. I’m glad I read it. It’s a very good book. Epic? No. It was entirely too slow and boring for way too long to be considered epic.

Definitely the second and third book was a huge mind-blowing.

First book I wasn't sure what was going on, I really was struggling to get the idea at the begging, I was even thinking to restart the audio book because I wasn't able to picture or concentrate. BUT THEN!! Second and third book really got me...(cries). I really like the closing of this book.

Epic story - modern classic

Breathtaking story, writing, and narration. Cannot recommend this highly enough to any fan of fantasy. Themes are dark and heartbreaking. Take a grain of salt with some of the depictions online - this is not a romantasy. It will leave you wrecked, in the best way.

Excellent writing

Couldn’t put this book down. I really loved the story and the detail that went into the writing

I had to know what happened next

The world building was really good, the characters were dynamic. I definitely recommend reading the content warnings before listening to the book.

Wow

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just finished the audiobook, I really feel like i listened to the life of Helen . I wouldn’t mind a sequel novella of their daughter going to school. And gosh! The ending tore me up, I kept wondering when I was going to cry because I kept seeing people crying. I can’t believe how Helen was listed as a non combatant, that broke me a little inside. Having family with PTSD from the military I could see that they struggled after the war, especially because of the torture they endured. But what a AWESOME book. I’m so excited that this will be a movie and they better not screw it up.

Beautiful Depressing Story- glad I listened

Will you need a mind numbing rom com after this book? Definitely. Is it worth it to push through all of the pain and misery in the MMCs life? Yes.
I love the story. It is very dark and depressing. I would listen to this book for hours and I think I got into a funk to be honest. I do think it could have been shortened, mostly because I was just wanting the misery to end.

Hauntingly Epic

A dark journey through necromancy, war and love. This is the best book I’ve read this year! This is for lovers of magic and tragedy. I hope they make this into a movie.

I love this story

this is one of my top reads for 2025! I love the way the characters are written. they are definitely fully fleshed out and not shallow.the plot is complicated and the magic system is unique. Will be recommending this one to friends.