My thoughts
This book is getting so much attention. I've read how devastating it is. How it will rip your heart out. How utterly sad it is. I saw none of that myself. It was good but not earth shatteringly sad or heartbreaking or devastating. Things did happen to give me emotion. But overall it was just a very interesting read. A very LONG one.
This book is a dark romance with a lot of war. Not that it's really that graphic with either. No big love scenes to give you the chills. No big war scenes to make you cringe. But enough of both to keep you reading. To keep your attention.
There is a lot of, what I call, the walking dead. The male main character, Kaine, is dead but can be brought to complete life again. Or so they say. The female, Helena, was a healer with other gifts. They fell in love and it was so obvious that was going to happen. It was a good love story. A bit gory though.
This book is in three parts. Part one happens actually after part two and part three is right where it should be. The order takes nothing away from the story. It it what it is. You'll either love it or not. It's very long and one I could put down easily.
I also listened to the audio and have to say the narrator, Saskia Maarleveld, did a fantastic job. She was able to change her voice so each character was done to perfection. I enjoy it when that happens.
Overall this is a good story but a bit to long. A bit gory in some places and there are a lot of dead people running around. Read it if you dare.
Oh and I didn't read any of the Harry Potter books so it being a fanfic of that was in no way important to me. I don't think it makes or breaks this one.
3.75 stars.
About
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.
"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.
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