Quicksilver (Fae & Alchemy #1)by Callie Hart
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Synopsis:
Do not touch the sword. Do not turn the key. Do not open the gate.
Twenty-four-year-old Saeris Fane is good at keeping secrets. No one knows about the strange powers she possesses, or the fact that she has been picking pockets and stealing from the Undying Queen’s reservoirs for as long as she can remember. In the land of the unforgiving desert, there isn’t much a girl wouldn’t do for a glass of water. But a secret is like a knot. Sooner or later, it is bound to come undone.
When Saeris comes face-to-face with Death himself, she inadvertently reopens a gateway between realms and is transported to a land of ice and snow. The Fae have always been the stuff of myth, of legend, of nightmares…but it turns out they’re real, and Saeris has landed right in the middle of a centuries-long conflict that might just get her killed.
The first of her kind to tread the frozen mountains of Yvelia in over a thousand years, Saeris mistakenly binds herself to Kingfisher, a handsome Fae warrior, who has secrets and nefarious agendas of his own. He will use her Alchemist’s magic to protect his people, no matter what it costs him… or her. Death has a name. It is Kingfisher of the Ajun Gate. His past is murky. His attitude stinks. And he’s the only way Saeris is going to make it home.
Be careful of the deals you make, dear child. The devil is in the details...
Review:
Quicksilver was a forced proximity, found family, enemies to lovers romantasy that I absolutely devoured! With a fascinating world and characters that had you rooting for them, I easily got lost in these pages. If you like fierce heroines, shadow daddies, and political intrigue, then definitely add this one to your tbr!
It isn’t disease that’s contagious in my ward, Captain. It’s dissent. Anarchy and rebellion spread like a wildfire.
Saeris Fane was smart, brave, cunning and I liked her instantly! Especially since she could be fierce and would fight till her last breath! She lived in a harsh world that constantly pushed her down. But she tried her best to survive. Listening to her thoughts, they made me laugh and had me cheering her on! When she reopened a gateway between realms, I was so excited to see what happened next!
Death had come for me, with wavy black hair and wicked green eyes.
Kingfisher, oh I have so many thoughts on him. He was a shadow daddy, who had absolutely no qualms about letting his a**hole side shine brightly haha. I was constantly searching for clues that he did have a heart. Those tiny moments of kindness he would show us, it proved that his black heart could beat! So while he could be kind…it was when he wanted to. But I loved his sneaky ways, his smartass comments, and most of all his filthy mouth!
Every time I thought I’d reached the limit of how much one living being could detest another, he went and proved to me that I was capable of so much more.
The banter and animosity between Saeris and Fisher was fabulous! They made me laugh out loud. And I loved how much they both would mess with the other. They were so entertaining! And when they crossed the line to more, they were scorching hot! I don’t want to say more, but the further we got in the story, the more and more obsessed I got with the two of them!
Fisher drew his bottom lip into his mouth, eyes the softest I’d ever seen them. Gently, he gathered the flyaway hair that had escaped my braid and carefully swept it behind my ear. “Breathe, Little Osha.”
With swirling secrets, blood oaths, battles, and obstacles that seemed insurmountable, Quicksilver held me in the palm of its hands! I even cried while reading this story. And shockingly Carrion even wiggled into my heart, I adored him! Plus I heart Onyx with my whole heart! Also, the ending left at the perfect stopping point. Yes there was a lot up in the air, but we were left at a point where we could breathe and be so excited for what is to come!
Other favorite quotes…
I was going to shank him in the neck with my very dull butter knife. Then he’d see how proficient I was with a blade.
“You don’t have a clue who I am,” he rumbled.
And maybe he was right about that. But I was beginning to. Beginning to figure him out.
A part of me knew that Fisher himself was the trap, and I was well and truly snared…
He buried his face into the crook of my neck, groaning, and the thought rose to my mind unbidden. Dangerous.
Bite me.
War was at the doorstep. Tomorrow was uncertain. Hell, today was uncertain, but this tiny moment was real.
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