A review by trinityb2021
Quicksilver by Callie Hart

3.5

3.5 ⭐️ 

This was entertaining and fun. It wasn’t that good tho. Everything is just one trope after another that I wasn’t surprised by a single thing. Sometimes it’s nice but when your book is over 600 pages you have to do something unique with it. The magic system and world building was the only thing that seemed to have some effort put into it but after the first 100 pages all development of that ended. 

This is egregiously similar to every romantasy I’ve ever read. Kingfisher is a mix of Rowan X Rhys X Xaden. He has the tattoos and scars. He has the magic shadow powers but also wind powers. He is a fae with vampire teeth that gets horny by drinking blood. This has been done 1000x. 

I thought the spice was really disappointing. It was just poorly written. Almost as if the author wasn’t invested in those scenes. If I had to guess here’s what I think happened with this book. The author had a cool basic idea for a YA or Adult fantasy novel. She couldn’t get any publisher/editor to pick up the idea. She thought “hey this romantasy shit is really popular. What if I add a broody love interest, 3 sex scenes, copy the premises from ACOTAR, and call it a day”. She did that and then accidentally created booktoks wet dream of a book. 

This book is fine and entertaining but it isn’t one of those books that pushes the genre forward. 

I will say that Callie Hart is a better author than SJM. She knows how to form sentences, descriptions, dialogue, wayyyy better.