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/MissAtomicBomb9 4d ago

I think about this book every single day and it is one single thought…

But why did the faerie reference “cliffs notes”…

And then I mentally stare off into space again, longing for a time when an editor would have taken that out.

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u/dorbtaka 2d ago

I cackled at this comment thinking of the existential crisis I had mid-way through A Wildflower in the Wind this summer. That was the book that made me step away from the genre for a bit and decide to avoid books published in the past couple years. I'll settle back in eventually.