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A review by booksandinternalstruggle
Quicksilver by R.J. Anderson
1.0
All I can say is…I’m certainly glad that is over with. I tore through it tonight with conviction, because I wanted it to end as soon as humanly possible.
And I was really looking forward to writing a raving review and recommending that everyone read it immediately. By now, I’m sure you’ve realized it isn’t going down like that.
I regret having purchased this book; I regret it because it was terrible and because I had enjoyed Ultraviolet so much, and now I won’t be able to reasonably boast or recommend it to anyone…because I know what happens afterward. Boughs of disappointment. Pain. Yeah, I’d even say pain.
Let me sum it up for you (may contain mild spoilers for Ultraviolet, which as I’d mentioned earlier, you should never read):
Quicksilver is about this teenage girl, Tori, that also happens to be some kind of an alien. She moves away from her town to get away from a team of doctors and an ex-cop that are looking for her, and works at a grocery store. In her free time, she builds a radio. She hangs out with a kid named Milo, who is pretty cool, but she doesn’t like him like that because she is also asexual. That’s not a criticism, it’s a fact. She tells him, and us, multiple times that she is asexual and has never felt physical attraction for anyone. They encounter some minor drama building said radio, and she later sustains a pretty serious self-inflicted injury.
Things that do not happen in this book:
-We encounter, or deal with, any evil aliens.
-There are lives truly in peril.
-Probably threats are actualized.
-Someone goes to outer space.
-Someone is captured.
-Romance, or any heart-wrenching moments of any kind.
There were a couple of points in the book where I felt emotionally invested:
-When I thought something bad was going to happen to the dog.
-When the author described the pancakes Tori had at Milo’s grandparent’s house.
If that’s enough to get you going, go ahead and give this one a read.
And I was really looking forward to writing a raving review and recommending that everyone read it immediately. By now, I’m sure you’ve realized it isn’t going down like that.
I regret having purchased this book; I regret it because it was terrible and because I had enjoyed Ultraviolet so much, and now I won’t be able to reasonably boast or recommend it to anyone…because I know what happens afterward. Boughs of disappointment. Pain. Yeah, I’d even say pain.
Let me sum it up for you (may contain mild spoilers for Ultraviolet, which as I’d mentioned earlier, you should never read):
Quicksilver is about this teenage girl, Tori, that also happens to be some kind of an alien. She moves away from her town to get away from a team of doctors and an ex-cop that are looking for her, and works at a grocery store. In her free time, she builds a radio. She hangs out with a kid named Milo, who is pretty cool, but she doesn’t like him like that because she is also asexual. That’s not a criticism, it’s a fact. She tells him, and us, multiple times that she is asexual and has never felt physical attraction for anyone. They encounter some minor drama building said radio, and she later sustains a pretty serious self-inflicted injury.
Things that do not happen in this book:
-We encounter, or deal with, any evil aliens.
-There are lives truly in peril.
-Probably threats are actualized.
-Someone goes to outer space.
-Someone is captured.
-Romance, or any heart-wrenching moments of any kind.
There were a couple of points in the book where I felt emotionally invested:
-When I thought something bad was going to happen to the dog.
-When the author described the pancakes Tori had at Milo’s grandparent’s house.
If that’s enough to get you going, go ahead and give this one a read.