Quicksilver Book Review

Hello everyone and welcome back to the blog! Today, I am back with another book review. This is a book that I've seen everywhere. Every time I'm at the book store I pass this cover. I dabble into the fantasy/romantasy genre from time to time, but seeing this on Kindle Unlimited is what made me dive in head first. So, let's get into it!

*This post contains some spoilers

In Quicksilver, we follow Saeris Fane who is constantly on the run, trying to take care of her little brother, and basically just trying to survive. Living conditions are horrible, there is a rationing of water, etc. One day, she steals from the royal guard. She is found and taken directly to the queen to be killed for her actions. There are many secrets floating around about the queen and what's hidden in the castle. During a fight for her life, Saeris ends up in a completely different realm...one of fae. Saeris falls in the middle of an ages long war.

The fae claim she's an alchemist; she can manipulate metals to their advantage and help them win their war. Enter Kingfisher, a fae warrior who wants absolutely nothing to do with her. As long as Saeris helps him and his people, she will get to return home to her brother. Sounds simple, right?

I would like to say the overall concept for this book was really cool. I liked the idea of quicksilver and how Saeris could manipulate it, speak to it. To the point where it was basically a character in the book. I just felt that the execution wasn't as good as it could've been.

We would get tidbits of information at the most random times, Everlayne was a prominent character in the first half of the book, but then her storyline fizzled out until the end, the chemistry between Kingfisher and Saeris was kind of weird and forced at times. Which I have more to touch on about that.

The first half of the book and the second half of the book felt completely different from each other. It wasn't until 46-49% where the relationship between Fisher and Saeris really started to develop into more, but it was such a 180 to me. I also didn't like the start of their relationship. Fisher was down right rude and mean to her. Their bantering was also cringey. I did like the idea of God-bound and the whole mate story line. That was cool.

The introduction to vampires halfway through the book was really random. I don't know how I necessarily felt about that, even now.

There was also the trope of found family. I thought this was done well. I really liked Fisher's warrior brothers. Their relationship felt authentic.

I felt like Carrion turned into someone I didn't like. In the beginning of the book, he was all swagger and swoon worthy, but as we see him in the second half he tries to become the comedic relief and I just feel like his character wasn't flushed out to be written like that.

I am curious to see how the story continues, but at this moment, I haven't decided if I'm going to read the second book which comes out this November.

The chapters were long, and I mean this was a 600 pages book. It wasn't just light reading. Overall, I gave this 2.75-3/5 stars.

Alright folks, that is all I have for this week! Come back next Wednesday for another blog post. As always, thank you for reading :)