Book Review: Quicksilver

Quicksilver is the latest installment in Amanda Quick/Jayne Ann Krentz's Arcane Society series. This one was written under the pseudonym Amanda Quick, which means we went back to Victorian England, where doctors are coming out with revolutionary new treatments for female hysteria, and the paranormal is all the rage.

Virginia is a glass light reader, which means she sees afterimages in mirrors. But someone has another use for her talent — a far more sinister one that will result in her death.

Owen is a hunter, compelled to walk the streets looking for monsters, such as the one who is after Virginia. His family has a history of such talents and of one other thing — if they don't find the right woman by their early thirties, they become night walkers, driven to walk the streets endlessly.

The suspense in this book was quite good. The serial killer's motives and methods were disturbing, and he kept us on our toes throughout the story.

The romance, on the other hand, was flat. It was more in the lines of a hookup while other things were going on, and the fact that Owen was about to descend into madness if he didn't fine his "true mate" soon was pretty beside the point, since he had obviously just met her. In fact, the problem was a complete lack of anything keeping these two apart. There was just every reason for them to get together from the start, leaving no romantic tension at all.

Overall, I recommend this to Amanda Quick fans.

Rating: 3/5

Title: Quicksilver

Author: Amanda Quick

Genre: Fantasy/Paranormal/Romance

ISBN: 9781441825582

Published May 1st, 2011

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