House of Helena
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Description
"It is not death I fear—but the harrowing nature of mortality."
A boy with hair as red as roses, but blood as clear as water.
A woman who will never have a child of her own.
A girl who lives on the edge, to remind herself she is alive.
What do these individuals have in common?
Enter The Dollhouse, a magical world home to The Dolls — beautiful and enchanted creatures cursed to endlessly scour the earth without meaning or direction.
Created for Helena Briar by her father Dr. Briar after a terrible accident shattered their relationship and family, The Dollhouse is his final testament of love-and magnum opus.
But what will happen, when many years later, Renata her daughter stumbles across the same dollhouse, abandoned and forgotten, but far from empty?
Might the secrets hidden inside be the key to immortality in the face of war, and for a dying king?
No matter the cost…?
Information
- Status
- Hiatus
- Year
- 2023
- Author
- WriterJustForFun
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- Rating
- 4.5/ 5.0
- Followers
- 4
- Views
- 2,752
Chapters(7 total)
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Community Reviews(1)
- IndigoSparksRoyal Road★★★★★ 4.5An enjoyable read. Plotwise, it promises an interesting tale with lots of twists and turns. The concept is very original, as well, and I found it very exciting. There's a lot of focus on the wider world and the war going on there, which wasn't hinted at in the synopsis, but has a lot of promise if it has an actual effect on the main plot. The prologue is a bit out of pocket as it doesn't give us the extra information about the Dolls you'd expect, but I found that that did not affect my reading experience much.
Characters are fun. They act their own age and have pretty set personalities. I find that the Dolls in particular are incredibly compelling characters as they are created to be immortal creatures for a child's amusement. Gives them existential dread like one can't believe.
Now, given its a classic fantasy, obviously the prose is written to match the time period. And in that regard it hits the mark perfectly. Flowery but not tiresome, it gives us a great read. The dialogue matches some colloquial terms and trends, but that only serves to keep the story readable and not a slog to work through.