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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD • 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.
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1 author picked Alchemised as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This is a long book, but that is because the author genuinely needs space to develop the setting and build the characters. This means that from the moment one picks up the book it is clear that there will be a slow burn of plot development that will at some point accelerate massively. In this it does not disappoint. The central personality of the book is suffering from artificial memory loss that implies a major secret is being hidden. As the drip feed of information about her past emerges, so the plot thickens and, with each revelation, the bigger picture…
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