Review: Quicksilver by Callie Hart
The Fae Romances win again with fated lovers, thieves, and monumental villains.
Dates read: 03/02/26 to 24/02/26
Star rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Word to describe: Invigorating
Genre: Fantasy Fiction
When I spotted that Callie Hart's ground breaking and five-star-rated series was on Kindle Unlimited I had to dive into it for a buddy read. There had to be a reason why all those Bookstagram and Booktok accounts had fallen head over heels for Kingfisher and also placed this book on a pedestal alongside A Court of Thorns and Roses. Could I find it amongst the pages of Quicksilver?
Of course I could! This book stole my heart almost immediately. My weakness for a good fantasy will always be the time loved trope of snarky teenage girl from poverty struck land meets unlikely hero and they battle for romance. It is time loved for a reason. Think of all the classic romantasy books and I bet that this trope will show up somewhere. So naturally, it only took me a few chapters to fall in love.
We are introduced t
o main character Saeris, aka your typical fantasy leading lady with a few too many bad habits to make her loveable. Being a metal thief is cute, right? She is unlucky in most things. Not for lack of trying and more because of societies usual bs. Saeris is living in a poor economy and fighting for water rations because of her social status. It's like the middle ages all over again. Water is a limited resource and in a world with like a billion suns and sand everywhere you'd think they would've figured that part out already. But - of course, there's a bitch dictator ruining everything.
So Saeris steals some metal, because it fetches a high price and a girl has to provide for her family jeez. With her brother consistently being a little shit someone has to do something. Saeris climbs the wall, steals some metal, she gets caught, becomes a hunted woman, and a sprinkle of badly planned good intentions leads her to getting arrested. No biggie. It's just a death sentence... and mysterious magic. But I'm not spoiling the whole plot you'll have to actually read it. All you need to know is that there's a sexy fae man called Kingfisher with swirling silver eyes and a determination to help Saeris unlock her abilities that might kidnap her. Just a little bit.
As with any book on the elusive fae nothing is every as it seems. Plot twist after plot twist left me holding onto my Kindle for dear life and trying to mash together my imagined characters of Saeris and Kingfisher because they took forever to kiss. And we all know I'm a sucker for an enemies to lovers plot line. I loved this book so heavily that I read part two without my reading buddy! (She wasn't as impressed as I was which just goes to show that every reader is different).
In conclusion. Yey.
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