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The Codex Keepers : The Forbidden Codex
The Codex The Forbidden Codex (Book One)One book rewrites reality. One girl holds the pen.
Twelve-year-old Ivy Whitcombe doesn’t believe in fate — until a mysterious book writes her friend’s disappearance into existence.
When Ivy stumbles into the hidden world of Bellwater’s Archivists, she discovers the Codex: a living, breathing manuscript that can reshape the past, predict the future, and erase the present with a single line of ink. The Codex shouldn’t respond to anyone… but it responds to her.
Now Ivy is being watched by a secret society of bookkeepers, stalked by shadows that crawl through library shelves, and haunted by a prophecy she may have already triggered. And when the Codex begins writing her name into its pages, Ivy must
Will she write the truth — or become a story the Codex can control?
🗝️ Perfect for fans of Harry Potter, Pages & Co., and The Mysterious Benedict Society
📚 Ideal for ages 10–14 (and clever readers of all ages)
✨ Packed with magical libraries, ancient bells, riddles, and secret Keeper lore
Twelve-year-old Ivy Whitcombe doesn’t believe in fate — until a mysterious book writes her friend’s disappearance into existence.
When Ivy stumbles into the hidden world of Bellwater’s Archivists, she discovers the Codex: a living, breathing manuscript that can reshape the past, predict the future, and erase the present with a single line of ink. The Codex shouldn’t respond to anyone… but it responds to her.
Now Ivy is being watched by a secret society of bookkeepers, stalked by shadows that crawl through library shelves, and haunted by a prophecy she may have already triggered. And when the Codex begins writing her name into its pages, Ivy must
Will she write the truth — or become a story the Codex can control?
🗝️ Perfect for fans of Harry Potter, Pages & Co., and The Mysterious Benedict Society
📚 Ideal for ages 10–14 (and clever readers of all ages)
✨ Packed with magical libraries, ancient bells, riddles, and secret Keeper lore
134 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 4, 2025
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September 26, 2025
Every AI-generated book is a lie, and this one is even more so, because the "author" (not an author) would like you not to know that they are another AI slop-swilling "author" (not an author), W.D. Marcum, who has put out plenty of AI slop under his own name, mostly slop for children such as Blue Goo Poos Too. I wondered why he recently stopped publishing new shitty AI garbage daily, and now I know: it was to splatter the slop around under different names for different genres instead to see what sticks.
This includes:
Those Who Carry the Light by R. K. Naigara
Physics and Philosophy: A Modern Love Story and The Theory of Everything: Proving God Through Conscience by George Le Savant
The Dream of Crows by Owen Roth
A 7-book series starting with The Unregistered Scholar by George Le Canne
The Codex Keepers : The Forbidden Codex by E. L. Maren
Exhibit A-Hole: Reasonable Doubt by E. G. Blakeney
and possibly others yet to be identified.
How do I know these are all from the same person?
-W.D. Marcum rated all these books 5 stars; no one else has rated them at all.
-They're all published by W.D. Marcum's self-publishing imprint, "DLPG Holdings, LLC".
-They're all published only after Marcum stopped publishing AI books under his own name, which of course is now tagged as the AI slop it is here on Goodreads thanks to yours truly.
-one of the books uses W.D. Marcum's author photo on its cover, twice.
And of course every one of them features an AI-generated cover and the text inside reeks of AI-generated slop, indistinguishable from countless other such books the endless stream of people who want to be authors without actually writing a goddamn word keep sharting out.
Maybe it's not supposed to be a secret? The more likely explanation is that AI slop book peddlers have no idea how easy it is to spot the slop and see what they're up to.
This includes:
Those Who Carry the Light by R. K. Naigara
Physics and Philosophy: A Modern Love Story and The Theory of Everything: Proving God Through Conscience by George Le Savant
The Dream of Crows by Owen Roth
A 7-book series starting with The Unregistered Scholar by George Le Canne
The Codex Keepers : The Forbidden Codex by E. L. Maren
Exhibit A-Hole: Reasonable Doubt by E. G. Blakeney
and possibly others yet to be identified.
How do I know these are all from the same person?
-W.D. Marcum rated all these books 5 stars; no one else has rated them at all.
-They're all published by W.D. Marcum's self-publishing imprint, "DLPG Holdings, LLC".
-They're all published only after Marcum stopped publishing AI books under his own name, which of course is now tagged as the AI slop it is here on Goodreads thanks to yours truly.
-one of the books uses W.D. Marcum's author photo on its cover, twice.
And of course every one of them features an AI-generated cover and the text inside reeks of AI-generated slop, indistinguishable from countless other such books the endless stream of people who want to be authors without actually writing a goddamn word keep sharting out.
Maybe it's not supposed to be a secret? The more likely explanation is that AI slop book peddlers have no idea how easy it is to spot the slop and see what they're up to.
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