Cathy’s Reviews > Alchemised > Status Update

Eeee this scene still hits
”are you wanting a confession? Shall I tell you everything I’ve done?”
”Do you want to?”
Yes he doessssssss

This seems to be different from manacled. There is something about Soren (Ron) that Helena has suppressed, And I assume it’s eye important if it makes her have this kind of reaction. It’s like her mind auto deleted her recent memory after she tried to remember him too hard

So that’s the same at least. Ginny/ Lila’s secret

Earlier Athena had a memory from school of her Luc and another person she couldn’t remember. I think I was right to assume that person was Kaine, and that they probably did interact some at school but she has erased those memories too.
That’s definitely a plus in this version, manacled couldn’t really make use of their memories from school but here these two could have a completely different dynamic

Heh finally some banter. He’s definitely having fun testing her memory

2. It was basically just “wow this is really painful” and she passes out and relives a memory of Luc who I don’t care about. Helena (and Hermione in Manacled) is basically a blank slate. Without the SA which doesn’t need explanation for the reader to become emotional I think the author is struggling to make these scenes actually angsty. Come on, give me something to actually angst over! (That isn’t SA)

1.Helena is sterile, so this book is really not going there. That’s a relief.
What I Will say though is I feel like the book so far lacks emotion. I feel kinda disconnected from Helena as a character and the conflict between her and Kaine. She’s a prisoner and Kaine is mean and he performs the resonance on her but the first (so far only) resonance scene was kinda flat…

2. I’ve been bracing for reliving those awful scenes again and now that it was just mind torture it feels kinda anticlimactic. That sounds awful I know. I am glad they changed that aspect but I feel they should’ve changed the storybeats and lines too bcs it was extremely recognizable as that scene from manacled, only replacing SA with mind torture. And I wonder what the potion he took was for if not that…

1. Ok we just passed the first session scene and it was thankfully way less traumatic than in manacled. Just painful mind magic stuff. I don’t really understand Transference, he is triumf to push his soul onside her mind to unlock her memories?
Anyways the ”get out” and her Tyringe to koll herdefolk after didn’t have the same emotional damage as in Manacled…

Omg its the introduction scene!
The high Reeve’s name is Kaine Ferron, was in her year at the Alchemical institute undergraduate study program. Don’t know yet how much interaction they had at school but probably not that much. I always wonder at what he must’ve been thinking when Helena shows up in his life again like this. I want a POV