A review by elntastic
Quicksilver by Callie Hart

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.5

What a disappointment this was…but let’s start with what I actually liked: I liked the Human City Zilvaren - where the story begins - and the setting and world ideas there. (Unfortunately, we do not spend a lot of time there.) I also really liked the FMC! She had a great sense of humor and was tough but kind. Additionally, I liked the whole Alchemy-thing. It was def something I have not read before. 

Sadly, once we enter the realm of the Fae, pretty much everything from there on is the typical stuff you read in almost every book now;  fancy and in great detail described dresses that the FMC has to wear, the typical nice girl that the FMC becomes friends with, and the broody male (MMC), who  is a completely asshole. And then it just goes on with all the usual drama. Everything in this plot except for the ending was totally foreseeable and boring. The world-Building was also completely off. Throwing vampires and fae into one world is one thing, but then making up vampire-zombies?? Now that’s a completely new level of the-author-had-no-original-ideas. 

And coming to the ending now…what an absolute disaster! Everything was completely thrown together and there were so many plot holes and things that didn’t make any sense. It was so disappointing. It felt like the author just desperately wanted to throw everything in there that she possibly could! Gods, fae, vampires, zombie-vampires and humans…Ugh! Why? 
>spoiler<
 
Also the whole dialogue with the god‘s daughters and the god himself  was soo weird! Like, why did they ask here what sex is like? Wtf? And then, they were the suns?? Where did that come from? So random and weird.  
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