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A review by utopiastateofmind
The Wicker King by K. Ancrum
4.5
The Wicker King is a powerful, gripping, and emotional story about codependency and love. The pacing is fast and it works so well. Ancrum sweeps you up in this story about friendship, toxicity, and love. About those lines we cross for the ones we love. The short chapters only contribute to this fast paced feeling - and I loved it! Combined with the page details (the pictures and the pages which get darker), reading The Wicker King feels like a descent.
You get this sensory experience where you feel yourself being dragged in like August. The nooks, crannies, hooks, and tenderness in their relationship. And yet The Wicker King inhabits this space of relatability amidst it all. In this space where you feel like you orbit around someone else. So badly crave their acceptance, their acknowledgement of you. And what you would do to chase that. Or is that just me?
You get this sensory experience where you feel yourself being dragged in like August. The nooks, crannies, hooks, and tenderness in their relationship. And yet The Wicker King inhabits this space of relatability amidst it all. In this space where you feel like you orbit around someone else. So badly crave their acceptance, their acknowledgement of you. And what you would do to chase that. Or is that just me?
Content Warnings
Moderate: Child abuse and Panic attacks/disorders