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i absolutely devoured alchemised, and now i‘m craving something similar. i‘ve seen people writing about manacled being even netter, but i‘m a bit shared that it will corrupt my love for alchemised (because it’s draco and hermione, and we all have their faces in front of us when we read their names, and also because of the more detailled and heavier rapes)
i loved the book so much and cant seem to let it go, but do you think reading manacled will change my opinion on alchemised?

i‘ve findished alchemised recently and ever since then i‘ve been in a reading slump because i enjoyed it so much. the atmosphere, the characters and especially their chemistry, the angst, the yearning, the magic world, ughhhhh i loved it so much.
is there a book you recommend reading after? something similar, but especially when it comes to the angst and character of those two characters?
thank you in advance:)

i was wondering…. in the last season of handmaids tale, lydia seemed to have recognized the brutalities of gilead and even helped the handmaids, almost getting executed for it.
how did that turn into lydia getting so celebrated that she even has a statue now? people must have still known about it, does that happening in another state really erase so much of that?
and also; in one of the last episodes of hmt, aunt lydia acknowledges that the ceremony has always been rape. why does she now recommend to commander judd that using a handmaid might be an option? have the living standards for handmaids changed so she now feels „better“ about it?
i think aunt lydia is the most interesting character in the series and i‘m currently rewatching all of handmaids tale, and i‘ve been asking myself these questions more and more