Do not touch the sword. Do not turn the key. Do not open the gate.
In the land of the unforgiving desert, there isn’t much a girl wouldn’t do for a glass of water.
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. But a secret is like a knot. Sooner or later, it is bound to come undone.
by Lília
Saeris Fane lives in a land of unforgiving desert and does everything she can to survive. Especially not show that she has some magic herself.
The Undying Queen kills everybody with even a drop of magic and so Saeris can’t let people know her secret.
A moment of weakness brings her to her imminent demise. She shouldn’t touch the sword, turn the key and open the gate. But she does all three and is suddenly confronted with Death himself. She ends up transported from the desert to a land of snow and intrigue, where the mystical and cruel Fae and other supernatural beings exist.
Kingfisher is Death, but he saves Saeris from certain death. And even though he’s not trustworthy, he’s Saeris’s only way back to her family. So she makes a deal with him, one where she’s not aware of the real consequences.
Saeris is sometimes a bit too stubborn and irritating. She does her best to survive and still reach her goals. Her relationship with Kingfisher is all sorts of complicated. But she doesn’t know what he really wants, and what he’ll do to get that until it’s too late. Kingfisher is also quite stubborn, but definitely more stoic than simply stubborn. His story is even more complicated than Saeris first imagined.
And besides Saeris and Kingfisher, the many other characters that pop up in the story bring with them their own problems. All their actions will have dire consequences…
Quicksilver has more sex than I expected, but in a good way. The plot is somewhat expected, but Callie Hart brings enough twists to the story that it feels a lot fresher and interesting than some other “hot” titles. I can’t wait to read Brimstone.
