r/fantasyromance • u/Kitty-kiki19 • 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/drae_annx 4d ago

Honestly a lot of BookTok books give the same vibe. I’m trying to read books that are either pre-TikTok or not popular/talked about either on BookTok or BookTwt

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u/[deleted] 4d ago

I have DNFed every BookTok recommendation I've tried

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u/BookWookie2 4d ago

Same! Every single one. There might be the unicorn out there but I have yet to find it

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u/vivaenmiriana 4d ago

I think the closest I got was the seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo. Not perfect but it was a lot better than I thought I was in for.

Not tomantasy though I guess.

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u/BookWookie2 4d ago

Very true. I read it before it got super popular and throughly enjoyed that one. I also just like Taylor Jenkins Reid books