The Wicker King

This book was messy. It was messy in the way that you felt a knot tighten in your chest just hoping for someone, anyone, to step in and help these characters. I had been looking for a book that I could devour and Ancrum delivered.

I was really worried that this book was going to be a long drawn out queerbait. Instead it was about neglect on multiple levels from those who should've shown up for Jack and August. It was about neglect even within their own relationship because of the weight that both boys had to carry.

It did end up feeling more like a journal with the added touches of the mixtapes, notes, and detention slips.

If any of this book interested in I would say just try it out. It did not leave me disappointed.