Alchemised by SenLinYu
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Here's a pleasant surprise for a dark fantasy. Sure, yes, it's absolutely a tortured romance with some very solid fantasy elements, but it's also more than that.

It's actually written in a pretty interesting way. If anything, I'd say it's a cool mix between the darker elements of Wuthering Heights and Mistborn.

Or rather, I like THIS romance better than THAT one, but by god, the kinds of things that they had to go through... Yeah. Let's just say that when a writer is told to kill their darlings, it usually doesn't includes outright torture, rape, gaslighting, necromancy, war crimes, questionable life decisions, and murder. But then, we all have our foibles, right? lol But here's the important part: this is written well. It's consistently fascinating, and once we get beyond the opening part, it gets REALLY good. The past after the present, flavoring EVERYTHING fresh. I love this shit.

So, yeah, I loved this read. Very dark, very disturbing. And yet, I never fell out of love of these two. Even when they did all they could to try to make it so. :)






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