Noelia (thisbookishlove)’s Reviews > Alchemised > Status Update

Commenting under my own update, cause I'm not on my computer and I can't edit. But he broke both her wrists. Both. He also put his foot on her chest and push to immobilize her, not allowing her to breath fully, and almost breaking her sternum.
How are we ok with romanticizing not only rape, but also violence against a woman? I'm raging 😡

I’m only like 9% in and I don’t know if I can give this a chance. Rape and violence against weaker is not ‘life changing’ or ‘heartbreaking’ it makes me want to vomit. Not only against women, but any weaker person, male or female.

*removes from tbr* 🫡Thank you.

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You're absolutely right. Me neither. I can't stand with the normalization of any kind of violence towards any being. I just can't stomach that. I've said woman because that's the scene I've just read. And I'm furious.
But, overall, from what I've read so far, he's an extremely violent man. And also a mass murderer. There's a scene where he kills a whole innocent famili just with his bare hands. There were children and he killed them by breaking their neck. And people are making excuses like he's a victim, when he's not. And it's making me nauseous how can you be so insensitive. How can you be so blind over a fictional character and not see how vicious he is.
Has the world gone mad? Or have we become so used to everyday violence that now we're just insensibilized against it? I'm an empath and for the life of me, I can't excuse stuff like this for any reason.

Oh, no... it's sounding more and more like a collection of tropes I hate. :(

How is stuff like this allowed to be printed 😭

My question stands how could Penguin published this? There is no reason at all to publish a fanfic to begin with (not saying fanfic writers can’t write something of their own and become a new published author) but a rip off and romanticization of r*pe and making it seems like it’s in some sense excuse-able made me feel sick. Penguin is not even broke, so greedy

Omg 😦 well I am not sure now if that is for me …I can tak “dark” per say but usually having problem with violence from MMC …

Marquise wrote: "Oh, no... it's sounding more and more like a collection of tropes I hate. :("

Sadly, it is. But I guess that's to be expected, given that this is just a reworked fanfiction. Knowing you and how we seem to agree on our reviews, I know right off the bat that this might not be for you.
In typical fanfiction fashion, it is full of tropes and easy melodrama. It tries to go for the emotional punch, you know? It's like the stuff you might find in soap operas or telenovelas. It tries (hard) to paint itself as serious stuff, but, actually it's not.

Isadora (tbr is too big) wrote: "How is stuff like this allowed to be printed 😭"

Sadly, money. They're profiting from a well-established fandom that will go to all lengths to buy and rate this book higher than what it really deserves. So far, I can already tell that this book is nowhere near its 4,56 avg Goodreads rating. That's coming from fans who are bombing it with 5-star ratings, which is itself a problem, because they're misleading average readers into reading something I'm 99% sure will not be of their liking.
If you're not yourself into fanfics or Dramione ships, I hardly doubt you might enjoy this. Besides its very problematic issues, the book is not an easy read, not because the prose is overly complicated, but because it's very repetitive. The vibe I'm getting is like a big endless loop, because each scene is like a deja vu of one another. When it's not borderline repetition, it's overly lengthy descriptions of worldbuilding. To me, that does not make a book a masterpiece.

Nadia wrote: "My question stands how could Penguin published this? There is no reason at all to publish a fanfic to begin with (not saying fanfic writers can’t write something of their own and become a new publi..."

Agreed. I don't know. They don't care, 'cause from what I've seen, the fandom doesn't seem to care. They go to all extremes to justify the MMC's actions. But the thing is, the more I read, the less justifiable he is.
They can come up with any excuse they want, but it doesn't change the fact that whatever happened, it was rape. But the book is going the extra mile trying to make up excuses for his behavior, playing it like he's the victim, when he's not. He was fully conscious of his acts, so he is responsible for what he did.
It's not even pla

Andy ₊✩‧₊˚౨ৎ˚₊✩‧₊ wrote: "Omg 😦 well I am not sure now if that is for me …I can tak “dark” per say but usually having problem with violence from MMC …"

Same. I detract stars instantly when I see stuff like this romanticized. It's the kind of stuff you can't joke about. And it shows a lack of empathy towards all the women who suffer and have suffered from this.