Romantasy Roundtable: Fantasy Romance Reviews

Quicksilver: Chapters 15-28


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Episode Title: Quicksilver – Chapters 15–28

Description: In Part 2 of Quicksilver, Amanda, Kim, and Rick descend gleefully into the chaos: shadow gates, tavern brawls, dinner-table politics, feral makeouts, 50,000 vampires, ancient swords that explode like confetti, and one fox familiar who is so over everyone’s emotional trauma. The trio debates coercion, consent, Beauty-and-the-Beast tropes, mating-bond tattoos, and why Fischer keeps running away like he’s late for a different book. Also: Carrion Swift continues to be the bisexual menace of our hearts.


Highlights include:

 • Area Codes, Bros: The pod opens unhinged and remains unhinged. Waffles, Bookstagram, and unsolicited mic techniques abound.

 • Bill the Horse & Ada the Hellbitch: Peak Romantasy animal-branding; Barbie logistics immediately derail the plot.

 • Shadow Gates & Red Flags: Fischer yeets Saeris through magical portals using the blood oath—no one likes it.

 • Relic Factory Hell: Fifteen thousand silver rings hit the table; Saeris realizes she accidentally signed up for eternal magical overtime.

 • Sprites, Swords & Soup: Archer the fire sprite judges them lovingly; Nimro the sword gets sentience; someone always vomits.

 • Carrion Swift Reunion Tour: Moss hand jobs from water sprites, cake vs. “quiche,” chaos-goblin advice in the forge, and the ongoing campaign to make “Swifty” merch canon.

 • Dinner Table Hostility: Beauty-and-the-Beast vibes, forbidden seating charts, and recurring “why are you sitting THERE?” drama.

 • Vampire Daddy Arrives: Malcolm strolls in like a runway villain and implies Fischer’s a traitor and chaos ensues.

 • The Shadow Sex Scene: Reality breaks. Tattoos migrate. A bird ends up on a boob. Onyx gets snack privileges.

 • Cottagecore Interlude: Ballard village, stew, dryads, nymphs, and Wendy the Jewish-fa-grandma interrogating their relationship.


Plus: Moss hand jobs, kingfisher ornithology with Mark’s Memo™, mating-bond theories, Carrion being everyone’s guy, and a whole ethics seminar about fae choking.


Next up: Chapters 29–End — finish Quicksilver ASAP because Brimstone is almost out and Rick is vibrating.

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Romantasy Roundtable: Fantasy Romance ReviewsBy Amanda, Kim, and Rick