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albyatross 's review for:
Quicksilver
by Callie Hart
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
A book in which Callie Hart commits enough theft against the fantasy genre as a whole, that it makes Terry Brooks look like an amateur for only refitting the names of LOTR characters for the beginning arc of Sword of Shannara.
We've got (an absolutely non-exhausted list) of:
- Tatooine
- the vibe of the scene from Mad Max Fury Road where everyone fights over the waterfall
- the Hunger Games districts (but unexplained in what any of them do)
- a Disney animal sidekick
- Witcher Magical Necklaces
- the Rift from Riftwar
+ the "metal is rare and special on the other side of the Rift" part of Riftwar where MC has ~rare unexplained powers to handle it~
- the Cassandra Clare (Almost) Family Special
- Saroun's Evil Tower from LOTR
- the Sword and the Stone
- Secretly Royal via almost any B-grade teen movie
- and the near whole plot of the first ACOTAR book into a soup over the Twilight Trilogy 'I could kill you fragile human' + 'I can smell your blood!!' where you can also feel like 'there's going to be a Vampire plot twist' at the first mention of overly described teeth with a shitty MMC.
- Lucius Malfoy with Red Eyes
- Draco Malfoy aka fake!Lucius's spawn who acts evil but isn't totally sure if he is or not, and doesn't sell out the FMC at the end
- Horcruxes inside a person
- the plot of David Bowie Labyrinth but shoved into a weird 60 page section
- giant ass spider demon thing from The Dark Tower
- Dante's Inferno: The Budget Cut Edition aka hell in five circles and not nine
Also why is the most prominent queer character the fucking villain?? Problematic much?? That's a trope from the Hays Code! Leave it where it belongs!!
Like. Someone get Callie Hart an immersion blender. PLEASE.
And no, I'm not spoilering any of that. If you've read nearly any other fantasy book, you already know the plot of this. None of it is spoilers.
The medical trauma besides the usual almost dying in battle constantly that happens in fantasy novels thou isforced sterilization, if that's hazardous for you.
We've got (an absolutely non-exhausted list) of:
- Tatooine
- the vibe of the scene from Mad Max Fury Road where everyone fights over the waterfall
- the Hunger Games districts (but unexplained in what any of them do)
- a Disney animal sidekick
- Witcher Magical Necklaces
- the Rift from Riftwar
+ the "metal is rare and special on the other side of the Rift" part of Riftwar where MC has ~rare unexplained powers to handle it~
- the Cassandra Clare (Almost) Family Special
- Saroun's Evil Tower from LOTR
- the Sword and the Stone
- Secretly Royal via almost any B-grade teen movie
- and the near whole plot of the first ACOTAR book into a soup over the Twilight Trilogy 'I could kill you fragile human' + 'I can smell your blood!!' where you can also feel like 'there's going to be a Vampire plot twist' at the first mention of overly described teeth with a shitty MMC.
- Lucius Malfoy with Red Eyes
- Draco Malfoy aka fake!Lucius's spawn who acts evil but isn't totally sure if he is or not, and doesn't sell out the FMC at the end
- Horcruxes inside a person
- the plot of David Bowie Labyrinth but shoved into a weird 60 page section
- giant ass spider demon thing from The Dark Tower
- Dante's Inferno: The Budget Cut Edition aka hell in five circles and not nine
Also why is the most prominent queer character the fucking villain?? Problematic much?? That's a trope from the Hays Code! Leave it where it belongs!!
Like. Someone get Callie Hart an immersion blender. PLEASE.
And no, I'm not spoilering any of that. If you've read nearly any other fantasy book, you already know the plot of this. None of it is spoilers.
The medical trauma besides the usual almost dying in battle constantly that happens in fantasy novels thou is
Content Warnings
Graphic: Medical trauma