The Bookish Hour

Quicksilver by Callie Hart (part two)

• Jor & Fab • Season 1 • Episode 48

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BOOKCLUB TIME!!

We are back, and by we I mean my bestie and I, to discuss all things Quicksilver by Callie Hart. This is part two so it is the second half of the book but really we just talk about the whole book here. If you have read the full Quicksilver book then come join us!

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Jordan:

Welcome to the bookish hour with just your now is all.

Lauren:

Now is all right with the world, because our best friend Craig is here. Pull over that ass too fat. Oh my gosh. That just makes me think of Nashville when I do it with you.

Lauren:

Yeah, that was so funny I want to do it again.

Jordan:

Stop it, stop it.

Lauren:

No, I want to talk about how it's the queen's birthday today.

Jordan:

Oh my gosh, we don't deserve her. Did you see that she was at the children's hospital in kansas city?

Lauren:

yeah, yeah, oh my gosh. Literally the day before her birthday too. Not only like, and did you see like a lot of people were saying like oh, this is like a pr stunt, like this is all for pr. And then somebody mentioned on on Instagram like okay, yeah, maybe it's for PR, but what other celebrity is also doing this for PR? Like you don't see any other celebrity going to hospitals? Like this is where it's at. Like she's visiting these beautiful kids in the hospital.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, also she's done this before. This isn't just because she's like really big now, like she's always done stuff, so Just no one really like saw it. Yeah, because she wasn't as big Agreed.

Lauren:

Agreed.

Speaker 3:

This is not new. I know A couple that stood out to me were like this one girl was making a reel and then like Taylor's in the room and then she's part of the reel too, I think, is this the one where they're dancing and like the heiress tour has got nothing on this?

Lauren:

And then they're like and I was like, what is what? And then I was like, oh my gosh, just imagine Taylor Swift being in your reel.

Speaker 3:

And then also this girl was like Taylor was like what do you want for Christmas? And she was like, well, I really want a Dyson Airwrap. And then the next day Taylor sent her one and it was like, in case Santa forgets.

Lauren:

Stop, that's so cute I know I love.

Speaker 3:

the need more reasons to love her.

Lauren:

I know I loved the one where she visited one kid, but I think the kid like didn't totally know who Taylor Swift was. But like, the person recording the video was like, oh, like, the mom, she's coming, she's like a huge Swifty. And Taylor's like, oh, my God, yes, like let's wait for her. And she's like she's like five minutes out. Oh yeah, no worries, we can catch her in the hallway. Like let's wait for her. And she's like she's like five minutes out. Oh yeah, no worries, we can catch her in the hallway.

Lauren:

Like that's what she does for her fans Like she's there, she is there for them.

Lauren:

This is like the one thing that I appreciate about her is she is there for like the day one fans or if.

Lauren:

I don't know if this is going to be, this is probably going to make me sound so bad, but I don't know if this is gonna make this is probably gonna make me sound so bad, but I don't care, um, but for the fans that are like fans before, the fans right now. So it's like I knew for the Aeros tour we were going to get tickets because we have seen her so many times in concerts that it's almost like she has it set up that if well, we also took precedence because we got lover tickets and that got canceled. But I knew we were never. We were going to at least be able to see her once. Like no issue when I know like a lot of people became fans either from Midnight's or like Tortured Poets Department and they couldn't get tickets. And I I do feel very bad because I think there was a ton of like robots buying him and then you had to like pay a lot of money for them.

Speaker 3:

But you should have became fans when we did yeah, I know I go back and forth between being mad that she's so popular and it's so much harder to see her and just being happy that finally everybody sees what we've seen all along like I feel like remember when we saw the fearless tour at the small venue, before she even went stadium and that was a production, like that was a show and like you couldn't even explain to people.

Lauren:

Like no, you, you go to see her, and it's like an experience, like no one understood that, that everybody was like, oh, she just sings about boys not that any artist doesn't do that, like everybody does that, but like besides the point, but I feel like it was still even like an experience. It wasn't just like a normal concert. I mean, we saw sam hunt and that's like he's literally just like standing, don't get me wrong like that was still a great show, but he just stands there and sings and maybe goes back and forth I know like, show me some choreos.

Speaker 3:

Sam hunt, where's your dances? Where's your fire sprouting out from the stage? Where's the rain dropping down and say, having words in it like come on, we could do better than that I know, wow, there's this one person that just always is like it's a great time to be alive, the same time as taylor swift or something like that and so true like actually I just can't.

Lauren:

like I can like, clearly people know when we're recording this, because we just said it's Taylor Swift's birthday, and if you don't know when her birthday is, shame on you. Just kidding.

Speaker 3:

I know it should truly be a national holiday.

Lauren:

I think the day after the Heiress tour and Taylor Swift's birthday should be national holidays. I can't believe it's over.

Speaker 3:

I know, I think I've just been in a state of like deep denial slash depression because also normally she would have like another show, like it's the weekend and now we don't get anything to look forward to the one nice thing is, like my instagram is still filled with, like old mashups, so it still kind of feels like she is on tour because I'm still seeing that old stuff.

Lauren:

but I can't believe. It's like it's just like over and it's so interesting, like trying to explain to somebody like even for people that didn't get to see her like like you see, like the reels and all that stuff, and it's hard to explain to somebody that doesn't understand that like it's not even going to it. It's just like the whole experience of it and the fact that that's fully over is just so sad I will never get the 22 hat. No, I think we are slightly too old for it too.

Speaker 3:

I know, but why? That was like my biggest qualm with it. Like I get that kids are cute. Don't get me wrong.

Lauren:

Like, but you're not a day one, yeah.

Speaker 3:

But like you weren't even alive during the, or speak now or read actually, yeah, but like you weren't even alive during the family, or Speak Now, or Red, actually Like no, you're right, they were probably born like when Lover came out. And so what about us girls who have been like going through it with Taylor, like she has been like our go-to person forever? How come one of us couldn't have been thrown in the mix Like I would have cried and shaked and done all the cute little dances that the kids did, like I would have done it? How come we couldn't have been picked that?

Lauren:

is yeah, no. Or like I was like praying that her mom would go around handing out. Like, oh, like my, my daughter can see you after the concert. Like I was still praying gillette, like when we saw her. Like, come on, andrea, where are you?

Speaker 3:

I know, like, don't you see me dancing over here as if I could be part of the show? Like I have all the moves, like I'm ready, I'm ready to get on stage. I know Well, we just have to hope he tours again.

Lauren:

You know, actually what we should do is we should make a girls trip to Kansas City. I hear there's nothing there, but the Chiefs are there, so like we'll just go during the football season. No, we need to go on a day that the Chiefs are playing a home game and then we'll just like during the football season. No, we need to go on a day that the Chiefs are playing a home game and then we'll just like hang out there.

Speaker 3:

We have to find out where the box is and we need the tickets right under the box Because, have you seen, like the people who are like right under the box, they'll like take selfies with them.

Lauren:

No, I haven't seen that, but I can see it. But I'm thinking even just like hang around the area Like after you know she goes out with Travis after yeah.

Speaker 3:

I mean, we're going to be going to those places, girl. I think it was a VIP situation and we are not on the list. We're just people. We're just people, I, we're just people, we're just the B yeah, which I don't think we'll cut it, but like we can dream, I mean I'm down to go, there's like a lot of other places I'd rather, but maybe it'll be more affordable, you know. I mean, yeah, maybe it'll be more affordable.

Lauren:

You know, I mean, yeah, I just want to see, I just want to meet her, I just want to meet her. Is that too much to ask for?

Speaker 3:

I know, but I think, like I really think I would need a heads up, because I think, if I'm worried, that I would just go mute if it was like a surprise.

Lauren:

I'm pretty sure I would like pass out. I'd be like on the floor, like I feel like you would be like tears streaming down your face and I would just be like on the ground?

Speaker 3:

no, but she was just like is this Like, does she need medical attention? Let?

Lauren:

me like come back later.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, yeah. So I think I would need to like either prepare, I don't know, maybe, knowing ahead, I would like get in my head more and freak out more. I can't tell. Let's just say I've met her in my dreams a couple times and it's gone.

Lauren:

Really well, wait, wait, I've. I've like thought about this, how like I've met her in my dreams too. And then I wake up and I'm like that like split second of like, oh my god, I just met Taylor Swift.

Speaker 3:

And then, as reality starts setting in, and then I just get more and more depressed yeah and you're like, well, okay, this day is already worse than it was gonna be, because that just happened and that wasn't real one day it will happen for us one day. I don't know. I've thought about like writing to her, but I think it would turn into just like a creepy letter of admiration.

Lauren:

I think you know how like people like talk about how they like love her and then she like sings at their like engagement or their wedding. I'm like, how do I make that happen? How do I do that?

Speaker 3:

yeah, oh, let me try I'm I.

Lauren:

I've been like a diehard fan you.

Speaker 3:

You could be like we will literally plan our wedding along whenever you're able to come, like that will be. You could just Exactly yeah, whatever.

Lauren:

You know you can't come that day. It's okay, we canceled the wedding. We'll move it to a different day. Reschedule.

Speaker 3:

When are you free?

Lauren:

Ugh yeah, Okay, back to the main event, even though Taylor Swift is the main event. So this is the second main event.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, a close second because, oh my god, whoa, so much happened. I know I feel like we were like making all these speculations and then the second half of the book was just like bang, bang, boom, action, twist, action, twist, kill, kill, kill all this stuff and like, wow, that was a lot.

Lauren:

So, if you didn't know, we're talking about the second half of Quicksilver. So this will be the second half, as well as the whole book of Quicksilver by Kelly Hart Carry on. Can we just talk about him for a second?

Speaker 3:

He's like he was like, yes, bite me. And then he was like I am the first son of these people that I don't know. And then the guy who bit him was like trying to throw up his blood after and he like, couldn't, he was like you didn't let me finish.

Lauren:

Oh, that is a nice segue because it's carry on swift yeah, are they related?

Speaker 3:

is that why she made that the last name? You know, like I knew something was up when he was like haunting the scary vampire man, I was like you're basically flirting with death right now.

Lauren:

So I was like there's got to be more to this and I I thought it was literally him just being like he was like flirting with the like the blonde girl, where he was like oh, and he was like uh, saris, was some said something like you really want to like fuck her. She's like scary and he's like I like a girl with teeth. It makes my dick hard. Do you remember that part? Nope, no, I don't, I know.

Speaker 3:

Yeah I gotta find it just ignore that then wait everly, or the other girl, the I don't.

Lauren:

I don't know anybody's name when you say it. You're the one that listened to the audio. I just know the girl that lost her hand oh, oh so like carry on was like into her yeah, donya, right, isn't her name donya?

Lauren:

maybe yeah, she's the one like her hand explodes yeah because she grabbed um his like sword, which was her sword, but because he bled on it. First she was like no, that's my sword and he's like no bitch, it's well, he didn't really say that, but she grabbed it and then her hand like blew up like I know she was supposed to be annoying, but I think that part was like a little overdone.

Speaker 3:

Like I was like okay, I get it, I get it.

Lauren:

This girl sucks like well, she grabbed a sword that didn't belong to her. I mean, even king fisher didn't want to touch it. He's like I'm not touching that. So she touched it and she found out. Talk, shit, wait, what is it get? Uh, yeah wait, what is it? Fuck around and find out yeah, she fucked around and she found out she found out?

Speaker 3:

yeah, I don't know there there was. Just I was reading. I got a little bit like lost in Reddit reviews after because I was so shook by everything. I don't know, Do you ever go to Reddit to read people's reactions?

Lauren:

No. So what are people's reactions?

Speaker 3:

Well, apparently, like a lot of people didn't like this book, which I thought was what? Yeah, a bunch of people don't finish it and I'm like how did you not finish it? Like I thought that this was way easier to get into than the first, like the akatar book oh, a hundred percent me too so I'm like what, what is people's problem?

Speaker 3:

but then the people who did finish it, I think were obsessed but a lot of people didn't like the um, I think were obsessed but a lot of people didn't like the relationship between Saris and Kingfisher and they thought it was too like rushed, which I don't know. It's like enemies to lovers and also once you learn I'm so sorry if you can hear that my dog is drinking water you learn like all the backstory of like him, kind of knowing she was his mate, like you can't really be mad at him for being a little bit about it yeah, no, it like makes sense.

Lauren:

Like he kind he like his whole life he knew that she was like coming into his life but didn't want it. But then like could it would? Knew, like he was drawn to her, which makes sense because like they're mates and then you're, but you don't have his perspective until he tells you that story so I think everything.

Lauren:

I think I'm almost like curious if, like these review people, are people that read agatar and then they're assuming this is going to be like the same thing and when it's not, they're like upset yeah, I don't know, but I thought, sorry, no, I just said like I thought it made sense that he was like not wanting to fall in love with her. I totally agree, because I was going to say that, fuck, I forgot what I was gonna say. I'm so sorry. Oh, no, that's on me, oh fuck.

Speaker 3:

But something I related to that people wrote was like you just kind of have to quench over some of the details, Cause like if you think about them too much then they don't really make that much sense, which made me feel better, Cause I was like, am I just missing something? Am I an idiot? But I even the people who like got really into the details there were some things that like didn't totally track, like how long kingfisher was in that weird maze thing and like how like lots of that sort of stuff, um, wait, but he was in the maze for as long as he was gone for like.

Speaker 3:

He was in the maze for like 100 and some odd years yeah, um no, but then he was like it was 50 years of this and another something amount of this.

Lauren:

Yeah, okay, I know what you mean, and it wasn't the same amount of time, yeah, it did. It was weird, like, but it was like at different points I noticed that too, because it was like 50 years, but then he was like eight years in the middle and and then I was like, wait, but that's only 58 years. And then the quick silver popped up and he just like left, even though like yeah, there was I do agree with that. But then, like, what I got was like the gist of it is that he was supposed to be in the maze the whole time. So that's kind of where I've left, that I don't know if that's actually accurate or not, but that's kind of where I've left, that I don't know if that's actually accurate or not, but that's where it's at. Yeah, but we were right. Like they are vampires, yeah.

Speaker 3:

But I thought Kingfisher was one.

Lauren:

That's what I'm still confused about, but now I guess I don't think so. So like that's the thing that I'm really confused about. Guess I don't think so. So, like that's the thing that I'm really confused about. So like is king fix? Sure he was cursed and he was a vampire, but then he got uncursed somehow, where the vampires like that guy that died did not want to become cured, so he stayed a vampire. But now saris is half vampire, half fey. So so I yeah, but like I. So I know you haven't gotten to like that far into Throne of Glass, but it is like a big thing that, like fae will like bite their mates. So that thing that he tried to bite Ceres is not that weird. So I don't think he's a vampire, I think he's just Fae.

Speaker 3:

Hmm, yeah, but that part was also weird, like I couldn't tell if he wanted to bite her, but she definitely wanted him to bite her.

Lauren:

So I was confused by that, maybe because that like really solidifies the mate bond, mm the mate bond, but she didn't bite him.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, I just like there's so many dynamics, like I'm glad it wasn't truly a cliffhanger, like we have resolution, but I feel like the resolution opens up all these other questions.

Lauren:

So I it's totally set up for the second book, but I'm glad like it's not like yes, I agree, because I think, like sometimes those I don't like, I like these, like books where they like end, but it's like a good ending, which I agree with you, like this is a good.

Lauren:

And when you told me you had like 16 minutes left, I was like, oh, like that's good, because, like I don't want her to think, like I almost wanted to be like there's, there's no cliffhanger, but I didn't say that. But I feel like it was a good ending because it ends in a spot where it's like, okay, now she's half vampire, half fey, like apparently she, they want her to be the queen of vampires because she slayed that guy, um, but there's no like no one's about to die, there's no like anything like that, which is very nice yeah, I just feel like I wish that the last like quarter of the book, either the beginning part, was a little quicker or just the whole book was longer, because I feel like it didn't need to be as rushed as it was the ending.

Lauren:

I see, when you mentioned about how you get to a certain point and then you can't put it down, I do get that because I feel like I hit that certain point and then like wanted to keep reading. But I kind of agree, I do. I do like how the first part of the book was I, but I wish like the second part was longer. But I also like didn't mind it like I do, like I definitely gave this five stars for what it was Like. No, like changes. But I also just like love fantasy so much. So you give me a fantasy book like I'm here for it, and a fantasy book that's going to have like more books, I'm like here for it.

Speaker 3:

So, knowing that this is gonna like there's for sure going to be a book two, but I think book two's not coming out until like October, november of next year, though I know, like I think I'm going to have to reread at least the second half of it, because there's so many details, like that whole part about like the people that were like burned and how he wanted to basically like let let them die and then they wouldn't let the coin drop, and then like what happened to those people.

Lauren:

Like that part I'm like oh, so she, oh yeah, so she let the coin drop, so now they weren't stuck, so they were all able to pass on. So those people are now like they've passed on and so like they're not stuck anymore. So like the fact that she let the coin drop was like really good, so so there's no more people, so he doesn't have an army of those people now but like I'm assuming like vampires. I don't know if they were vampires, they looked more like zombies, so I don't know. So I'm like, are they gonna dead? I think they're just like dead. I think they're gone, like they've passed on, but like I'm sure, well now, but I'm guessing like there was still like a vampire army, because now she's the queen of them.

Speaker 3:

So yeah, I do think that the scene between like her Basically I envisioned her like reaching into a spider's throat I don't know if I envisioned that right, I did too, but like a giant spider, like it reminded me of like the Harry Potter spider and, um, that really scared me. So the basically between when that happened and then when she was getting butted, like they had me convinced, I was like she can't die, what the heck? And she was basically just being like stabbed in her stomach and like bleeding out oh, like with the vampire, or at the beginning of the book you're talking about no, with the vampire.

Speaker 3:

Like that whole portion of it, I feel like really did a good job of like capturing my attention, like I was was like whoa, whoa, whoa. What's happening?

Lauren:

I kind of agree with you there, like it definitely was very much, like I like couldn't like put it down because there was so much like going on and I like needed to know what happened next. And with you saying to like the reread, I think I'm definitely going to get the audio book and listen to it before book two. But I'm curious to see like where she goes with it, because clearly the vampire is dead but the other two people are alive, like his, like stepdad, and then that like queen of Ceres's world, like they're both still alive.

Speaker 3:

So I can see like yeah, like the content on, are those the right people?

Lauren:

yeah, I don't know how to say their name. I can like see it on the paper.

Speaker 3:

But yeah, that's the details where I'm like, hmm, but I think maybe we're not supposed to understand it yeah, I don't think so either.

Lauren:

Like I think there's just like I think it's supposed to leave so much up in the air. So then that way it like pulls you in, like you'll want to read the next book.

Speaker 3:

Mm-hmm, I mean, you were right, I think last time we talked about like the butterfly thing and it had more meaning than being like weak and soft.

Lauren:

It was like most sacred.

Speaker 3:

I was like yeah, yeah, that part about like his mom too was so emotional and how the part like mom too was so emotional and how the part like they basically like were together and had this like crazy good night where they were like the closest they've ever been, and then she woke up to the letter. I was like what the actual fuck is happening? Like this can't be happening, like that was crazy. He left.

Lauren:

Yeah, I was so mad I thought okay. So I was like I was waiting for her to be like give me my tattoos back. I was like give her her tattoos and I was like ask for those tattoos and she wasn't. And then he was gone and I was like how are you supposed to get your tattoos back? How are you supposed to accept the mate?

Speaker 3:

and another thing I didn't understand was the like portal thingy through the ceiling. How did they get up there? Because they literally said Averleen crashed through the table which was going to be their way of jumping into the thingy and then they don't have a table. So I just like that part. I couldn't visualize it because I was like how are they jumping up through a portal that's like in the ceiling?

Lauren:

up through a portal that's like in the ceiling. Well, okay, so like that part I understood, because I feel like they pushed them through and then a certain point, like the portal like sucked them up the rest of the way. But my thing is, how did they? How did everlene? Because she fell through, but they fell into water. So how the fuck did she get in there to be sucked through and then fall down because they, they fell out of the sky and like she broke all her like bones. When she get in there to be sucked through and then fall down because they, they fell out of the sky and like she broke all her like bones when she fell in the water. So I'm like, did you jump out of the water into this portal?

Speaker 3:

or maybe like fisher like threw her and created a portal as he threw her, or something.

Lauren:

Oh, maybe I did not imagine the vacuum effect, but that tracks that that's like how it felt like when, when she was describing it like, oh, I made it like halfway up and then, like, the rest of the portal just pulled me up yeah, that was crazy.

Speaker 3:

I know it left me with this feeling of like I was just impressed. I didn't see a lot of the twists coming um at all, so I was very pleased with, like, the ending of it oh, same same, and I'm just like happy that there's going to be another book.

Lauren:

What do you think like book two would be about?

Speaker 3:

Well, they have this like conflict of interest in their relationship now because she has to oversee the vampires and he's like the fae lord man and she's part both. So I don't know like are they going to bring everybody together in like one big happy world?

Lauren:

Oh, like I could see them, like like starting an army to take down the other two people. But I almost I still think, like how we said for the first half, like I think they're still going to go to like saris's, like the third world yeah yeah, like realm and like get her brother and I feel like her brother is going to be like thriving yeah and I think like they're gonna get an army that way and then king fisher is gonna have his army, she's gonna have the army of vampires and they're gonna take down these motherfuckers.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, because they don't technically have the people like that very beginning scene, like Madra or however you say her name, like her army doesn't have any special powers, right, it's just that all the army is silver.

Lauren:

Yeah, and I think even too like she was talking, saris was talking to somebody Kingfisher, and there's only too like she was talking. Or Ceres was talking to somebody King Fisher, and there's only like 2,000 of them compared to like how big the I think they're just like calling themselves that. But he doesn't need a huge army, because he's not going to attack her, because they're actually like working together yeah, that was a shock.

Speaker 3:

That was one of those details where I was like I don't really understand. I was like I know that this is unexpected, that they're working together, but but like I don't really understand how that would be like a mutually beneficial alliance like part fey.

Lauren:

So I'm just curious of like whatever, like I think, I don't know, like I think she's just like part fey and like part doing this and he's just like yeah yeah, I also think it was strange how big of a deal her not having kids was made to the point where I'm like now that she's like a fey vampire.

Speaker 3:

Does that change her reproductive ability? Because she's not a human anymore, like I feel like they wouldn't have made such a big deal about it if that wasn't going to come into play that I agree, because it was almost like when she brought it up to him, he like made it a big deal by like not saying anything.

Lauren:

And then when they got in touch with like the queen, like the or whatever whatever you call her he was like I will kill you for like taking away her or like however he worded it, and I was like, oh, this is is like weird like in the sense of like making a big deal about it yeah, it was very I don't know I was.

Speaker 3:

That was like an unexpected thing where I was like I feel like this is being made such a deal that it's gotta be more than just this agreed, agreed.

Lauren:

but then I almost, like I kind of agree with you in the sense of like, now that she's different, that that is almost like not a thing anymore, like she won't have a problem now.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, I don't know. I'm very curious where it's going to go, but overall I would highly recommend this, like it was so entertaining.

Lauren:

It was so good and it was one of those things that I do think. So, like the first half of it, like, even though I wouldn't say it was slow, I do kind of agree in the sense of like, if I wasn't buddy reading it with you I don't want to say that I would have put it down, but I would have. I would have taken me a lot longer to read the first half, but I knew I wanted to read it in time for us to discuss it. That I kept up with, like the first half, but then, like once we we got to that halfway point, like I got very excited to finish it. So that was like, not an issue, like it get, like you really get into it, and then you're like I need to keep reading. It's just that, like first half, I can see being like taking a little bit longer for like people?

Speaker 3:

totally no, it was lit like literally, because I think we stopped right before chapter 20 and chapter was lit was when you first get that visual of like the river and the vampires on the other side and I was like, oh boy, this is really escalating right now and as soon as that happened I just wanted to keep going yes, yes, agreed.

Lauren:

So it's like then it was so easy to keep going. But it's just that, like first half. But that's why I'm kind of happy that we did buddy read it, because it's like it kept me like wanting to keep reading, because it's like I can't not.

Speaker 3:

I know I just like I'm trying to relive the emotions I was going through in those last few chapters. I've it truly like it was one of those books where you finish and you're just like what, like it took me a little bit to digest everything because I was like what just?

Lauren:

well, also too, like when I read the carry-on part, I like stopped reading and I was like I went to luna and or, and I was like what the fuck? It's like you don't understand me right now, but something big just happened. And then they went back to sleep. But it's like you don't understand me right now, but something big just happened.

Speaker 3:

And then they went back to sleep. They're like, okay, our mom's talking about fairies again. Yep.

Lauren:

Fairies and vampires.

Jordan:

Yeah.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, it was just. Yeah, I got the spider thing. When she's stabbed, then she wakes up and they're like okay, you're not dead, but also you're fake. Also, you're a vampire, also surprised because you killed that bad guy. Now you have to oversee the vampires who just were trying to kill you. Okay, bye, see you next year, like what? Have a good have a good life.

Speaker 3:

Well like, I can't believe that I know, but now we have to wait but we kind of know like they're destined to be together yes so it's kind of like I'm almost like does that kind of spoil it, like we know, no matter what happens, like they're gonna end up together yeah, but it's gonna be a journey to get there that's true people wish they could pull a Sarah J Maas, but like this guy's on the cover, what if he she kills saris and it's like somebody else? What do you mean?

Lauren:

she kills the main character and it's actually no, she couldn't do that.

Speaker 3:

That would be crazy. Oh my god, I don't think I'd like that plot twist it's. It's onyx, it's the fox yeah, okay, how come onyx wasn't in the resolution?

Lauren:

I don't remember him being talked about in the last part of the book I think he was left, because he was left at his place, so he he didn't come with them. So he's at um king fisher's, like a state, so they're still there, but they're currently where the vampires are at, so they're on the other side, they're like on the dead side. So that's why he wasn't.

Speaker 3:

The fox wasn't there well, he stayed on that he better.

Lauren:

It's like my favorite part. You saw that real. I sent you.

Speaker 3:

Well, it wasn't real, it was like somebody's story, but like that was so the fox was you and like animated I think I'm pretty sure that was AI, but still loved it do you think it's gonna be a like live action the Netflix?

Lauren:

has to be, but I feel like the next book is going to come out before the netflix thing even comes out.

Speaker 3:

So I kind of hope it does, because I like the way my brain has pictured the characters and I worry, yet before I read it, it's going to make me feel like I'm reading a whole new book rather than like the second book that's a good point.

Lauren:

I I agree with you there and I think that's what's gonna happen. I think the second book will come out before netflix does, because it's like fall of next year and there's like netflix, what like she was able to announce it. But I think the only thing currently tied to netflix like the movie is like a producer or like a director or something but like no cast members or anything yeah, oh yeah.

Speaker 3:

I know I know I feel like a little bit like I don't know where to go from here in terms of fantasy reading, because that I feel like that was so good I mean, well, I don't know, are you into like greek mythology at?

Lauren:

all oh what this is like no, I like negative um I tried to not e and I didn't Okay that is like fully Greek mythology and it's, I understand, like it's not everybody's cup of tea, but this one the game's gods play. It's they use like Greek mythology in the sense of like there's Hades, Zeus, poseidon, like all like the Greek gods and stuff, but it's she created her own like fantasy world of it. Well, I yeah, like well no, because it's Olympus and like they live in like San Francisco. So it's like a little bit different, not like totally fantasy world she made up and stuff, but it's really good.

Speaker 3:

Okay, I'm only like 30% in Isn't there that like kids book that was made into a show or a movie where it's like a boy and his friends?

Lauren:

Oh, yes, I know what you're talking about. Oh my God, rick, like Rick something Rick, holy shit. Oh my god, rick, like Rick something Rick's. Oh my god. If anybody listens to this, that knows this book is going to eat me alive.

Speaker 3:

It's like a big series. It's like very popular.

Lauren:

And it was made into a movie and he like didn't endorse the movie because they sucked. And then I guess it was made into a TV show. That was like way better.

Speaker 3:

And he like oh, my god, this is gonna drive me crazy I like rick, wait, rick reardon, percy jackson yes, there we go. I was saying rick, I was like I do not think that's a name, but you were talking about that with her. Yes, I didn't want to.

Lauren:

That was nothing close to what was in my mind and I'm wow, but like everybody raves about that, but I think I'm just like a little past that age range.

Speaker 3:

So yeah, I was dragged into watching it. I can't even remember.

Lauren:

I think it's't even remember. I think it's a show. I think it's a show, so it first was a movie and, like, came out in 2014, maybe, um that's a long time ago, yeah, but then like, so rick did not support it because the the movies were god awful and all that.

Speaker 3:

But like now they went back and made it a tv show and now, like they, he like supports it yeah, yes, that is what I watched, I think maybe on disney plus, I can't even remember, but it was like there's like real people, it's not anime or anything. It was good. I love it's real people sometimes I I just don't always love like the animation type stuff.

Lauren:

Yes, but I just love that you refer to it.

Speaker 3:

I don't know the fancy words to describe it oh boy, yeah.

Lauren:

But I'm so glad like thank you so much for doing this, because thank you so much for buddy reading and for talking about it on the podcast oh my gosh.

Speaker 3:

Yes, and this, and it came out really recently. I don't think I realized that this book, yeah well.

Lauren:

So, like it was re-released through um, uh, I think forever picked it up, like the imprint forever picked it up, and that came out on tuesday, but I do think this book has only been out for like six months. Maybe it hasn't been out for very long. Okay, maybe that's a lot, maybe I don't. I don't, don't quote me on that. I don't know, like when it came out. I don't know why.

Speaker 3:

I feel Like I don't know I could be totally wrong on this one, but I feel like that it was newer, but maybe we were just like sleeping on it and it didn't okay.

Lauren:

So quicksilver had a cover reveal on may 7th, available now june, june 4th oh yeah, so I I okay.

Speaker 3:

I should have been more confused when I saw the publication date in december, because people have been reading it for months but yeah, but it's still only been out for like not very long yeah but yeah, the december is just forever picking it up, but it has like the same like cover of this, like guy.

Lauren:

I did a new cover though that that's really pretty. No, no, no, it's still the guy cover. That is like a special edition. That is like I think that could have been like before. Now that it's with Forever, I don't think you can get that cover. I think the hardcover might have that in the back, can? You order that.

Speaker 3:

No, it says sold out.

Lauren:

Yeah, I think that's why.

Speaker 3:

It'd be like silver butterfly, like nothing.

Lauren:

Yeah, that's like the discreet cover. That was like available for purchase if you didn't want this guy cover when she released it indie.

Speaker 3:

I missed out. I like that one better.

Lauren:

I like the guy cover actually awkward.

Speaker 3:

I mean I will put a huge like I would encourage people to listen to this because I think it did. I think they did an excellent job for the audio.

Lauren:

I like, can't, like. I already know I'm going to definitely listen as like a reread and yeah, they did a really good job.

Speaker 3:

I hope I mean they've got to get the same voice after people for the second one, because it was so good they have to and some of the reddit stuff I was reading, like people who listen to it liked their relationship a little more and I could see that being true because of like the tiny little, like the cadence in their conversation and the pauses and like it made it more like personable and like I mean, obviously I say more but I didn't read it with my eyeballs so I don't have anything to compare to. I say more but I didn't read it with my eyeballs so I don't have anything to compare to. But like I think I bought into it more because of how good they acted it out in the audiobook okay.

Lauren:

Okay, I mean I didn't listen to it, but I still really liked their relationship and like the course of it, even reading it yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 3:

I think that that's something that's really hard for me is when, like, I really love a book and then I go read other people's opinions and they feel differently, and then I'm like, wait, did we read the same book?

Speaker 3:

because I feel so different some people are wrong yeah, or I think some people just like I think I just go into things with an open mind like I think some people are really disappointed that something's not what they wanted it to be and I'm like, okay, well then you write a book, yeah, no, I think people can be very harsh, not realizing that.

Lauren:

I mean, and I do think like you should definitely like rate and review a book like how you want to, but I feel like people like critique it so heavily where I'm like, if I had a good time reading it, like five stars, five stars for you, five stars for you, five stars for you.

Lauren:

Like yeah, but I also give like two stars for books that like could be something like stupid and I don't even know what, but I could give it like two stars. I've like watched this like one reel I hope I can find it but it's this guy like talking about how, like kind of saying the same thing that like we were saying, and he was like you know, like people will get so like hellbent on like a fantasy book, like talking about champagne, and they'll say like, oh, we're drinking champagne, but like champagne is only from like the region of champagne in France. So like you're in a fantasy world, like they're not drinking champagne, like you can make up a name from like very low, low, low, low, and that could be like the version of champagne, but he's like also like who cares, but then he's like granted, I've also dnf'd a book because they said fart too many times and I was like, yes, like can relate, like there's just like certain things, like who cares, and then also like I've definitely dnf'd a book because of like they said fart too many times. So it's just like. I feel like it's just so.

Lauren:

Subject subject subjective.

Speaker 3:

Thank you, yeah, it's just like what books are you reading that say fart?

Lauren:

that was like him saying it. I don't even know what book he's talking about. But then I was like, yes, like I feel like it can relate to that, because it can be something like as stupid as like saying a word too many times. But no, I'm not reading any books that say fart too many times.

Speaker 3:

I the one thing that gave me the ick about this. It didn't happen. Every fantasy book I've read so far is they say god's cursed, as, like, what in the god's cursed are you doing here? Blah, blah, blah. And I'm like okay, like I don't like that, and maybe it's just because I listen to them and it's the way they say it and the inflection in their voice, but I really don't like that and I don't think that they need it and I think it's just to like emphasize that there are gods in this world and I don't, I just don't like it. But that's like a personal thing, yeah interesting.

Lauren:

I don't think I realized that they said it. I didn't like, but I get it because in I don't know if this was in agatar, but in throne of glass rutting is like a thing and she would say it a lot like and I just that gave me the ick, but I was reading it and it just like the way she would say they rutted rutting. I was like, okay, can we not?

Speaker 3:

they fucked oh, I was like what is that so?

Lauren:

it's like is that so? It's like, apparently deer's fucking. It's like rutting. So it's like a nicer Like. So all I'm picturing is fucking deer.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, that's not great.

Lauren:

No, so it's definitely an ick. I got, so I get it.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, you and deer are not friends.

Lauren:

No, we're not, no, we're not.

Speaker 3:

They don't like me. Yeah, they have a personal vendetta against yeah, so I can see how that could really be a problem for you I mean you're not wrong, um, but yeah, that's all I have.

Jordan:

I mean you're not wrong, but yeah, that's all I have.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, hopefully we can do this again sometime.

Lauren:

Yeah, yes, maybe it won't be a fantasy, but yeah, I'm open to options.

Speaker 3:

We just like to, you know, read. Read what the people are reading, you know, be in the know. Now I can like have relevant conversations with people and be so informed.

Lauren:

Yeah, you'll be so cool. You'll know everything there is to know about Quicksilver. And then any future books, and then any future books.

Jordan:

Thank you so much for listening. I hope you enjoyed this episode. Please feel free to rate and review us on Spotify and Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen, and if there's any interviews or conversations you would like me to have with someone specific, please reach out either email or through our Instagram, available in the show notes and happy reading.