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skcoe 's review for:
The Wicker King
by K. Ancrum
“at least you can tell from the outside that i’m batshit. At least it’s not a fucking surprise. You’re all complex and… you act like something is itching to crawl out of your skin. Something bad.”
a beautiful gut-wrenching story about devotion and delusion. August is so much of a giver that he hopes and tries to solve Jack through sheer force of will. Used to suppressing his own needs for others, this comes easy to him.
“You are a world class liar, August Bateman. Every inch of you craves things you can’t afford… or don’t feel like you’re allowed to have.”
but one persons devotion and love and *want* is not enough to outlaw a degenerative hallucinogenic disorder; and it doesn’t matter whether you fell down the rabbit hole or dived in head first, you’re in the madness of wonderland now.
‘ “I think you’re doing your best, but your best is not good enough some times. Sometimes.. you have to stop trying and just let someone else try their best. In order to survive”
It was the worst thing he had ever heard.‘
codependent toxic friendships are somewhat of a specialty of mine, and I thoroughly enjoyed reading a version of that where there was a total desperation to *fix* things and have things be good and each other well.
having an illness isn’t the end of the world - it’s a new one.
a beautiful gut-wrenching story about devotion and delusion. August is so much of a giver that he hopes and tries to solve Jack through sheer force of will. Used to suppressing his own needs for others, this comes easy to him.
“You are a world class liar, August Bateman. Every inch of you craves things you can’t afford… or don’t feel like you’re allowed to have.”
but one persons devotion and love and *want* is not enough to outlaw a degenerative hallucinogenic disorder; and it doesn’t matter whether you fell down the rabbit hole or dived in head first, you’re in the madness of wonderland now.
‘ “I think you’re doing your best, but your best is not good enough some times. Sometimes.. you have to stop trying and just let someone else try their best. In order to survive”
It was the worst thing he had ever heard.‘
codependent toxic friendships are somewhat of a specialty of mine, and I thoroughly enjoyed reading a version of that where there was a total desperation to *fix* things and have things be good and each other well.
having an illness isn’t the end of the world - it’s a new one.