Episode Twenty Four: Manacled, Full Book Review {Spoiler Free Beginning!}

Hello and thank you for joining us for our full review of Manacled - a Harry Potter fan-fiction. In this episode, we review the book as a whole, and give our final thoughts. Please note that this review does contain spoilers towards the end.
This book has very dark themes and bouts of SA. Please consider this your trigger warning.
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[@A-kb8kg]

Almost done with Manacled and boy oh boy was that a whirlwind! Loved this series soooooooo much more than the HP saga. Granted, I was a “baby” when HP but I was SHOOKETH with Manacled. Can’t love this any more than I already do.

[@DamselsAfterDark]

We totally agree!! Manacled IS cannon and we accept no arguments otherwise. 😄

[@amandaelynch1]

Hey, you guys! I just found you from this episode on Spotify and was excited to learn you have your video format on here. I just finished Manacled last night and am desperate for any kind of discourse on the book because I have no one to talk to about it! This is my very first fanfic, and Draco/Hermoine romance at that, and I absolutely loved it! I have to say, though, that now that I have read this story as my first and want more, I am scared that I will be let down by others because so many reviews say that this one is the best. I also have seen TikTok's of people recommending certain palate cleanser fanfics afterwards, but I want to stay in the dark and heavy, haha. Also, I'm in my mid 30's and absolutely cannot do younger (cutesy, immature?) type of storylines, which is why I loved this book. It was devastating and mature. If you have any other recs similar I would love to know! I am very aware of ACOTAR, which is on my list, though I'm not even sure what they are about, just that people are obsessed, but any others that have the anti-hero, dark, romance, etc. Love a slow burn, too, my favourite! Thanks for the podcast episode; I think I'll go and watch some of your others, even though I jumped to the final full review.

[@DamselsAfterDark]

Hello! So glad you found us on here! Manacled was our first fanfiction too and we also fell hard. Krystle has read some additional Dramoine fanfictions and strongly recommends checking out Love in the Time of a Zombie Apocalypse and Breath Mints and Battle Scars. The second one is "younger" since they are still in school but it is SO GOOD. We also enjoyed The Cruel Prince series, but that is more political fantasy with an enemies to lovers element thrown in as a side thing (think YA Game of Thrones). But we gave the series as a whole a 5 across the board. We started this podcast so we could find people to talk about books with too! If you want to join us, we have a reading schedule in our link tree (which will launch for season 2 in Feb)...or you can follow our insta for our monthly TBR announcements. You can also join us on Fable and discuss in real time with us (and our growing community) your thoughts on our current reads!

[@DamselsAfterDark]

Also, ACOTAR is good, and we did enjoy it! Does not compare to Manacled though. Another series to check out too is The Plated Prisoner series which we will be covering this season too!

[@Fendi106]

I am not an overly emotional person so the deaths and gore didn't bother me a lot....as a harry potter fan I was always kinda liking Slytherins the most and always thought that JKR did them dirty. This book fed my hunger for a redemption of the members of this particular house...such amazing complex characters...Draco and Snape, even Lucius.....JKR could have done so much better, instead she painted them all as evil. Black and white. I am happy I read this book, it's a masterpiece.

[@carlillasa]

One thing we always say with a potterhead friend is that JK Rowling made a huge mistake pairing the characters with their first real boyfriend/girlfriend because she didn't allow them to explore their feelings and their sexual desire. As you said, it would be ok if Hermione was with Ron just for a bit, but not marrying him and having children with them.

[@DamselsAfterDark]

Exactly! We needed more variation. These pairings were just lazy.