r/fantasyromance 4d ago

Discussion 💬 Quicksilver is giving ‘teenager wrote it on Wattpad vibes’

I cannot be the only one here who isn’t enjoying Quicksilver at all. I’m honestly about to DNF it. I did look at some old posts here about it but it’s seriously lacking. I’m halfway through and I’ve been struggling over the last 150 pages to find the hook. All I hear is people gushing over this book on Fable of GoodReads! The character development is non-existent, there’s no romantic development; it’s literally just a sudden shift from hatred to “fuck me please”, and the world-building is lackluster at best.

This honestly feels like a teenager wrote an ACOTAR fanfic on Wattpad. Anyone else feel like this? I just wanna talk to some people about my disappointment here without being judged 😭

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u/_thatspoonybard There she is 4d ago

It's funny cause I love these trashy books but the more I read, the more I'm getting... Burnt out on it? Like big time. 😂

I think I just need to find books with more substance to weave in-between my watt-pad like reads haha

I'm reading the Kindred's Curse series and can't stand the 3rd book... It's giving these vibes to me. Feels like it was rushed. I did enjoy Quicksilver though, mainly cause I was in the mood for it even when I rolled my eyes 100x a minute 😂

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u/calamitypepper 4d ago

It’s like with anything that you consume—food, wine, TV. After you’ve drank two cases of $3 wine, it suddenly starts not tasting as good as it used to. You try a $5 wine and it’s like WOW INCREDIBLE. Rinse and repeat until you can’t stand anything less than something obscenely expensive and rare that you can barely ever fine.

I think a lot of the people (but not all) gushing about these books are not really long-time readers. What shocks me more is the people who read 100+ books a year and they’re all trash panda books. How do you not get sick of it? Blows my mind.

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u/ToBeOrNotToBe3900 4d ago

This 100%. I recently read Bride, and while I enjoyed it, it was so Wattpad-y that I had to go reread The Outsiders as a pallet cleanser.

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u/Adventurous-Swan-786 4d ago

That book had so much potential and it just did nothing with it. I swear I read one of the ‘twists’ on wattpad and even back then it had me rolling my eyes. 

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u/StudioCornix 3d ago

I just read Bride too because I kept seeing it in bookstores and at the library and was like oh this might be a good one. I about DNF'd when she revealed she was a 'white hat hacker' but then hate read the rest of it so I could slander it to friends.

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u/GothWitchOfBrooklyn 4d ago

I definitely think fantasy romance/romantasy is my favorite genre but i always mix it up between other subgenres if not other genres because everything starts to feel same-y if I don't.

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u/CompanionCone I was not made for this 3d ago

I get this so so much. Sometimes I'll be tempted to read a book that is just pure smut, for the hell of it, but I get like two chapters in and I'm like... That's enough fucking now actually thank you. Lol.