Fiction: Alchemised by SenLin Yu

[Paul Ferguson]

"Once a promising alchemist, Helena Marino is now a prisoner—of war and of her own mind. Her Resistance friends and allies have been brutally murdered, her abilities suppressed, and the world she knew destroyed."

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/463110/a...0241714331

https://ursummary.com/alchemised-summary...-senlinyu/

[Paul Ferguson]

"We’re a week away from pub[lication] day, and I have finally finished winnowing my stacks of research and reference materials into a list that is not completely bonkers."

https://senlinyu.substack.com/p/the-book...alchemised

[Paul Ferguson]

Text here (legal?):

https://www.allfreenovel.com/Book/Detail...d#PageList

[Paul Ferguson]

Reviewed:

https://www.grimdarkmagazine.com/review-...-senlinyu/

[Paul Ferguson]

"SenLinYu’s dark fantasy novel Alchemised debuted on the New York Times bestseller list in September, selling 300,000 copies in North America in its first week and 1 million in the U.S. by the beginning of October. Even before it was published, Legendary bought the film rights, reportedly for more than $3 million. That’s a staggering level of success for a debut novel. But SenLinYu had already built a large audience for their book on the Archive of Our Own, where it originated as Harry Potter fanfiction."

https://www.polygon.com/alchemised-manac...interview/