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Quicksilver
by Callie Hart
I went into this predisposed to not enjoy it, as every booktok pick I’ve read thus far has been a let down for me. Therefore, I was quite pleasantly surprised. The writing, characters, and plot were all average, not awful. The whole concept of the quicksilver was genuinely quite intriguing, and some of the side characters really held their own, like Carrion and Onyx (until he disappeared 😭).
I hated the possessiveness of the men, the ‘I’m not like other girls, I’m an independent badass who doesn’t wear dresses’ energy of the MC, the secretiveness of the fated mates, and the girl on girl rivalry. So ready for those tropes to die. The fae also being vampires felt shoehorned in, and the names were a lot. How am I meant to take a man named for a bird and another named for rotting meat seriously?
Mostly, though, this book was just messy. I had so many unanswered questions, only some of which got answered in the info dump that was the last few chapters.How did the king just let a powerful prisoner and the only alchemist known for hundreds of years disappear with absolutely zero follow-up? If Kingfisher has no lands, where are all these houses and servants coming from? How did Everlane end up with the vampires? How did Malcolm die when they were meant to be a triumvirate who dies together? And, most importantly, how did a 5-foot-something human come away from sex with a 7-foot fae with her intestines intact??
I hated the possessiveness of the men, the ‘I’m not like other girls, I’m an independent badass who doesn’t wear dresses’ energy of the MC, the secretiveness of the fated mates, and the girl on girl rivalry. So ready for those tropes to die. The fae also being vampires felt shoehorned in, and the names were a lot. How am I meant to take a man named for a bird and another named for rotting meat seriously?
Mostly, though, this book was just messy. I had so many unanswered questions, only some of which got answered in the info dump that was the last few chapters.