#RentABook | Rose in Chains & The Perks of Being a Dramione Shipper

Buongiorno booklovers, come state' A breve arriverà la recensione di uno dei libri che si preannuncia fenomeno del 2025, ossia Rose In Chains, di Julie Soto, nato sulla piattaforma "Archive of Our Own" come fanfiction legata a Hermione Granger e Draco Malfoy della serie di Harry Potter.

I must admit, sono stata una Dramione shipper fin da quando avevo 14 anni, e diciamo che il trope redeemed bad boy x golden girl... beh, "it resonates with me".

In realtà, non è l'unica Dramione-inspired storia che salirà sugli scaffali. Qui sotto un piccolo spunto (e di più) se siete anche voi coinvolti da questi personaggi.

THE IRRESISTIBLE URGE TO FALL FOR YOUR ENEMY, DI BRIGITTE KNIGHTLEY

TRAMA:

Osric Mordaunt, member of the Fyren Order of assassins, is in dire need of healing. Naturally – such is the grim comedy of fate – the only healer who can help is Aurienne Fairhrim, preeminent scientist, bastion of moral good, and member of an enemy Order.

Aurienne is desperate for funding to heal the sick - so desperate that, when Osric bribes her to help him, she accepts, even if she detests him and everything he stands for.

A forced collaboration ensues: the brilliant Woman in STEM is coerced into working with the PhD in Murders, much to Aurienne's disgust. As Osric and Aurienne work together to heal his illness and investigate the mysterious reoccurrence of a deadly pox, they find themselves ardently denying their attraction, which only fuels the heat between them.

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L'ho letto, ed è stato bellissimo.

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ALCHEMISED, DI SEN LIN YU

TRAMA:

“What is it you think you’re protecting in that brain of yours? The war is over. Holdfast is dead. The Eternal Flame extinguished. There’s no one left for you to save.”

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.

In the aftermath of a long war, Paladia’s new ruling class of corrupt guild families and depraved necromancers, whose vile, undead creatures helped bring about their victory, holds Helena captive.

According to Resistance records, she was a healer of little importance within their ranks. But Helena has inexplicable memory loss of the months leading up to her capture, making her enemies wonder: Is she truly as insignificant as she appears, or are her lost memories hiding some vital piece of the Resistance’s final gambit?

To uncover the memories buried deep within her mind, Helena is sent to the High Reeve, one of the most powerful and ruthless necromancers in this new world. Trapped on his crumbling estate, Helena’s fight—to protect her lost history and to preserve the last remaining shreds of her former self—is just beginning. For her prison and captor have secrets of their own . . . secrets Helena must unearth, whatever the cost...

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Ho letto Alchemised (Manacled) quando era ancora su Ao3, e ho pianto anche l'acqua del battesimo. Attendo la versione cartacea

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E... ovviamente...

ROSE IN CHAINS, DI JULIE SOTO

TRAMA:

Captured as her castle is overrun by the enemy, Briony Rosewood knows that the world as she knows it is changed forever. The dark forces of Bomard have won and her people, the Eversuns, face imminent servitude, imprisonment or death. Her brother, fated to be heir twice over and unite the warring kingdoms, is dead.

Stripped of her Mind Magic and her freedom, Briony and the other survivors are quickly auctioned off to the highest bidders in an auction – and as the heir-apparent’s sister, she fetches the highest price.

After a fierce bidding war, she’s sold to none other than Toven a high ranking Bomardsun – and her long-time and ill-fated infatuation. Scion of a family known for their cruel control of Heart Magic, the Hearsts are ruthlessly ambitious, and Briony knows they will use her however they can to further their own interests.

Yet despite the horrors of her new world and the role she must learn to play within it, all is not lost. Help – and hope – may yet arise in the most unlikely of places…

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Letto, ed è per me un grande SI (piccolo spoiler).