Katelyn Dale - June 20, 2025

This book contains explicit open door sexual content, violence, and profanity.

This book has been all over my social media pages, it's been hyped nearly to death. When I picked it up I wasn't sure what I was getting into, to a certain extent because it's marked for new adults in the age range of 20-25. There was something about how the main character's first sexual encounter goes that bothered me. The first time Saeris and Fisher, the two main characters, sleep together they don't have a solid emotional connection. It was literally just one and done. Being with someone sexually is such an intimate thing, and at this point they haven't even started to build that connection, that solid foundation. That bonding happens in between the first and second time they are together. Saeris is with him during a ptsd-like episode in a small village and at that point they've started to build their relationship, that bond. Then when they come together the morning after, it comes across better, it's written better, and feels more meaningful for both the characters and the reader. From there the connection between them grows, and evolves in a way that feels natural. And I feel like that should have been the first time they were together, rather than the second.

There is a considerable amount of violence described in Quicksilver. There are battles, people's throats being slit, stab wounds and bloody descriptions. There is also quite a bit of profanity.

The first half of the book kind of felt like Hart was just rushing through the set up, so she could get to that scene on page 385, and everything after that. Because from there the pacing evens out; she begins to focus on the characters and the plots like she's supposed to.

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