Book Review: A Forbidden Alchemy by Stacey McEwan

A Forbidden Alchemy by Stacey McEwan
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

To the many people telling me that this was SUCH a good book...

*In Sir Integra Hellsing's voice (the abridged version)* YOU WERE RIGHT.

This book has PEAKY BLINDERS vibes, with a mix of magic, tunnels, secrets, and the SLOWEST of slow burns I've ever read. I loved the fact that Nina Clarke is trying to save everyone and the town of Kenton Hill, and at the same time, she falls in love with Patrick Colson, the leader of the Miners' Union. It also kind of had a love triangle between Nina, Patrick, and Theodore, but to be fair, I really didn't give a flying crap about Theo.

AT ALL.

I wanted him to go away each time he showed up, all jealous of the fact that Nina was getting close to Patrick, and I felt like Theo was going to fight him. I was waiting for him to buck up and actually swing, but he didn't. At the end, he actually helped Patrick face the troops and try to help him find Nina, even when Patrick revealed his secret.

As for Patrick, reading his POV was quite interesting. I really liked how he tries to hide everything from Nina, only for it to turn around and bite him CLEAR across his behind when Nina kept asking fifty million questions and wanting to know about this and wanting to know about that. When the landslide happened and Nina jumped in to try and stop it, Patrick tried to stop her. He even thought something really bad had happened to her as she charmed the earth and saved his brother Gunner and all of the miners from the landslide. But Nina saved a LOT of people that day, and I was glad that she tried to protect Patrick at the end, when he revealed himself to be the alchemist.

I was shocked when he told her that-that the last alchemist died and he became the last Alchemist, mostly because I really didn't believe it. But as he explained how he became the alchemist, I understood it, even to it's painful end. This book was such a good book and I would read it all over again, to visit this world once more and be welcomed back to Keaton Hill again.

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