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Of the Wicked and Broken
For fans of Deborah Harkness’s A Discovery of Witches and Leigh Bardugo’s Ninth House, Of the Wicked and Broken is a hauntingly lyrical dark fantasy about alchemy, power, and the price of survival.
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It comes in the dead of night, slipping through her subconscious like the whisper of a dream. The Alchimia exists, and so too the shadows emerging from darkness, the faces turning monstrous, and the nightmares real enough to consume her whole.
University student Josephine Klein’s life is upended when a fabled manuscript pulls her into a hidden world of warring alchemist factions. Plagued by a deadly curse and haunted for her rare connection to their world, Josephine must navigate a centuries-long power struggle and a treacherous web of lies.
To survive, she needs to make a continue down this road, dark and twisted as it may be, or run—and risk becoming lost forever.
✭・.・✫・
For readers who love complex morally grey characters, intricate world-building hidden within our own, and slow-burn dark fantasy.
✭・.・✫・✭・.・✫・
It comes in the dead of night, slipping through her subconscious like the whisper of a dream. The Alchimia exists, and so too the shadows emerging from darkness, the faces turning monstrous, and the nightmares real enough to consume her whole.
University student Josephine Klein’s life is upended when a fabled manuscript pulls her into a hidden world of warring alchemist factions. Plagued by a deadly curse and haunted for her rare connection to their world, Josephine must navigate a centuries-long power struggle and a treacherous web of lies.
To survive, she needs to make a continue down this road, dark and twisted as it may be, or run—and risk becoming lost forever.
✭・.・✫・
For readers who love complex morally grey characters, intricate world-building hidden within our own, and slow-burn dark fantasy.
394 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 10, 2025
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