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A review by slowa_w_filizance
The Wicker King by K. Ancrum
5.0
I'm going to need a while to recover from this book
So... This book absolutely wrecked me emotionally. I didn't even think I would give this 5 stars until the very last 100 pages, but oh, when it hit, it hit hard.
This book made me cry and it made me scream with frustration because oh my god, they were just kids they should never be forced to deal with this kind of stuff on their own. But at the same time it was almost comforting to see a character struggle so much to help his mentally ill friend and to be assured that, even when he was failing, he did the best he could.
I still struggle to find right words to describe this story so instead I'm going to say how it felt.
It felt like holding someone so tightly and not tightly enough at the same time because what if there's no one else to hold them when you let go?
It felt like watching something so wrong and so intimate at the same time, the codependency and toxicity of main characters' relationship, the wrecked beauty of it.
So... This book absolutely wrecked me emotionally. I didn't even think I would give this 5 stars until the very last 100 pages, but oh, when it hit, it hit hard.
This book made me cry and it made me scream with frustration because oh my god, they were just kids they should never be forced to deal with this kind of stuff on their own. But at the same time it was almost comforting to see a character struggle so much to help his mentally ill friend and to be assured that, even when he was failing, he did the best he could.
I still struggle to find right words to describe this story so instead I'm going to say how it felt.
It felt like holding someone so tightly and not tightly enough at the same time because what if there's no one else to hold them when you let go?
It felt like watching something so wrong and so intimate at the same time, the codependency and toxicity of main characters' relationship, the wrecked beauty of it.