Julia Elizabeth’s Reviews > Alchemised > Status Update

“Splintering spike” ah never mind, there’s the prose we almost forgot about

I’m surprised this book is actually doing the “magic isn’t bad or good but subject to people’s morals” than dragon age ended up doing. Alchemised pulls ahead of veilguard in the running. I’m just as shocked as you

By Paracelsus this cannot be happening

Ooo did Morrough take over Lucy’s body already?

Ok I’m absolutely here for Bad Bitch Helena who wants to make an alchemy bomb because she’s fed up with bad leadership decisions

Look no one is more *initially squicked out by pregnancy* than me, but I do appreciate that part of the convo around it is specifically about the lack of choice and bodily autonomy. I get the people who also don’t love the discussion but the critiques that it’s “not necessary in our current political climate” is an insane take. Genuinely, some readers would find comfort in this convo

SO COOL that one of your best friends says “I couldn’t tell the truth and be like you”
Please tell me why you’re friends again?

“Gilded by a golden sunrise”
…. What are we even doing here, man?

I get that it’s The Point that no one has to take accountability except Helena, as The Outsider. But it’s getting exhausting that we’re in her head this whole time and she doesn’t even THINK about this unfairness inflicted by her so-called friends. Can she not get mad at them in her mind even once? Can she not take them to task for their risky behavior that hurts everyone around them even once?

The heaviest deepest groan in the world because Helena is being STUPID and has no self preservation