The Weight of the Stars

Posted on 17 April 2018 by K. Ancrum

Ryann Bird dreams of traveling across the stars But a career in space isn t an option for a girl who lives in a trailer park on the wrong side of town So Ryann becomes her circumstances and settles for acting out and skipping school to hang out with her delinquent friends One day she meets Alexandria a furious loner who spurns Ryann s offer of friendship After a horrific accident leaves Alexandria with a broken arm, the two misfits are brought together despite themselves and Ryann learns her secret Alexandria s mother is an astronaut who volunteered for a one way trip to the edge of the solar system Every night without fail, Alexandria waits to catch radio signals from her mother And its up to Ryann to lift her onto the roof day after day until the silence between them grows into friendship, and eventually something In K Ancrum s signature poetic style, this slow burn romance will have you savoring every page An Imprint Book Free Download The Weight of the Stars [ Author ] K. Ancrum [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr I finished this book and wandered downstairs in a dream, my head spinning, but acutely, achingly conscious that I was alive A wild desire to go outside and lay under the cold of the stars gripped me, and that moment, seemingly ordinary, felt utterly surreal The obscure unreality of it all expanded until it blotted out all else nothing mattered, problems were futile, the planets spun, life went on, and I was my own celestial being.Look, I m just a simple girl with a highly detailed and romanti I finished this book and wandered downstairs in a dream, my head spinning, but acutely, achingly conscious that I was alive A wild desire to go outside and lay under the cold of the stars gripped me, and that moment, seemingly ordinary, felt utterly surreal The obscure unreality of it all expanded until it blotted out all else nothing mattered, problems were futile, the planets spun, life went on, and I was my own celestial being.Look, I m just a simple girl with a highly detailed and romanticized infatuation with SPACE and FICTIONAL CHARACTERS that haunts her dreams at night and this book just knew ...I was just looking for a good time and instead I ended up crying myself to sleep at 1am because of this book, and K Ancrum knows exactly what she s done and I know she s out there smiling to herself The Weight of the Stars is about a girl named Ryann, who is struggling through her last year of high school while having to take care of her brother and his son Alexandria is new to town, and she instantly intrigues Ryann, to the point where it gets her in trouble.But there isto Alexandria t I was just looking for a good time and instead I ended up crying myself to sleep at 1am because of this book, and K Ancrum knows exactly what she s done and I know she s out there smiling to herself The Weight of the Stars is about a girl named Ryann, who is struggling through her last year of high school while having to take care of her brother and his son Alexandria is new to town, and she instantly intrigues Ryann, to the point where it gets her in trouble.But there isto Alexandria than what Ryann initially thought, and their ...yells from rooftops BUTCH LESBIANS SPACE SOFTNESS TRUE LOVEi would give my life for kayla s writing but also her writing saves my gay life Equivalent Exchange Blog Twitter Instagram Bloglovin Reads Rainbowhugs myself forever brb i m just gonna go cry for a decade don t mind meGod, I really really wanted to love this. The Wicker King is one of my favorite books and my hopes were so high for this one. I was sure Ancrum would be one of my new favorite authors.But I just didn t enjoy this one Neither did I care for... All Ryann wants is to travel through space, but that s not happening for a girl living in a trailer park, taking care of her brother and his baby so she spends her time befriending the misfits at her school and trying to stay out of trouble When Alexandria shows up, she wants nothing to do with Ryann and her friends, but Ryann s never been one to back down from a challenge, especially when that challenge is a girl known far and wide for being the only daughter of a famous astronaut who went All Ryann wants is to travel through space, but that s not happening for a girl living in a trailer park, taking care of her brother and his baby so she spends her time befriending the misfits at her school and trying to stay out of trouble When Alexandria shows up, she wants nothing to do with Ryann and her friends, but Ryann s never been one to back down from a challenge, especially when that challenge is a girl known far and wide for being the only daughter of a famous astronaut who went to space and never came back. If you ve seen my review of The Wicker King by this same author, you already know how much I adore her as both a writer and a human being, so when I was given the opportunity to read and review The Weight of the Stars, I could barely stand myself She told me this book was a WLW love letter to her queer lady fans, and I remember thi...I tried to look up how much stars actually weigh and Google just showed me Kim Kardashian s butt Goodreads Blog Twitch Pinterest Buy Reddityou know this actually took longer to grow on me than The Wicker King, as it s definitely just a littleslow burn, but I ended up binge reading it, and I was so into the characters this author is so good at getting you invested in characters and the romance god I love the sapphics we are too powerful and then the last twenty pages of this book quite literally made me start choking crying like I started choking on sobs because I was still reading genuinely that was such a stunni you know this actually took longer to grow on me than The Wicker King, as it s definitely just a littleslow burn, but I ended up binge reading it, and I was so into the characters this author is so good at getting you invested in characters and the romance god I love the sapphics we are too powerful and then the last twenty pages of this book quite literally made me start choking crying like I started choking on sobs because I was still reading genuinely that was such a stu...This young adult novel featuring high school seniors shows the heavy weight of mistakes, both inherited and self made It portrays palpable emotions such as grief, protectiveness, anger, hope, and love, and it does this all with a beautifully diverse cast of characters As for the rating, this novel started out as a 3 for me mainly because I wasn t quite sure where it was trying to go , the story progression later on had me at a high 4, but that author s noteOMG, a solid 5 K Ancrum can del This young adult novel featuring high school seniors shows the heavy weight of mistakes, both inherited and self made It portrays palpable emotions such as grief, protectiveness, anger, hope, and love, and it does this all with a beautifully diverse cast of characters As for the rating, this novel started out as a 3 for me mainly because I wasn t quite sure where it was trying to go , the story progression later on had me at a high 4, but that author s noteOMG, a solid 5 K Ancrum can deliver everything with her writing So much talent This non spoiler excerpt from the author s note is all the review you needI filled The Weight of the Stars with teenagers throttling their trauma instead of drowning in it because you deserve to see your peers being strong.Please look at them and know you too can seize your failure by the neck and look it in the eyes Know that you can gaze at the you that was and say, I love you You can bethan this Know that you can step forward, even when everythi...Fighting for yourself is another way of loving yourself Ryann Bird has been fighting for herself, for her family, for so long she doesn t remember what it feels like to be a gentle thing Ryann has been taking care of her brother Jamie since their parents died and as if that wasn t enough on her eighteen year old shoulders she s also trying to keep her grades up so she can get into a space program She s the glue that holds her friend group together and she s tough as hell with a heart of goldFighting for yourself is another way of loving yourself Ryann Bird has been fighting for herself, for her family, for so long she doesn t remember what it feels like to be a gentle thing Ryann has been taking care of her brother Jamie since their parents died and as if that wasn t enough on her eighteen year old shoulders she s also trying to keep her grades up so she can get into a space program She s the glue that holds her friend group together and she s tough as hell with a heart of goldDiversity is a flower that blooms with greater beauty and greater strength each time it is cross pollinated Within Ryann s circle is the most diverse, amazing, fantastically flawed and broken group of friends Her brother hasn t spoken since their parents died, not even when he showed up at the doorstep with an infant who was clearly his son S... I was kindly sent this book as an advanced copy by the author for reviewing purposes, but all opinions are my own. Okay let me tell you about this book and not because technically I kind of have to review it but because I just really need an outlet for what I m feeling after finishing it THIS BOOK is very different from The Wicker King but it s also very similar But kind of not I M ALREADY NOT MAKING SENSE HERE but I m really trying The Weight of the Stars throws you in an initially seeming I was kindly sent this book as an advanced copy by the author for reviewing purposes, but all opinions are my own. Okay let me tell you about this book and not because technically I kind of have to review it but because I just really need an outlet for what I m feeling after finishing it THIS BOOK is very different from The Wicker King but it s also very similar But kind of not I M ALREADY NOT MAKING SENSE HERE but I m really trying The Weight of the Stars throws you in an initially seemingly familiar contemporary YA setting You have a MC, Ryann, who is a bit of a troublemaker and doesn t have a typical teenage home situation, you have the new girl at school, and you have Ryann s group of friends who don t belong anywhere so they all...First, I would like to say that I love K Ancrum with my entire heart and she is sunshine Secondly, how can any human being not love her prose 1 It s so well paced and inherently cool but at the same time dark aesthetic af 2 You feel like you re still living on earth, but at the same time you re swept up into this surreal dream you have chills all over 3 It s really special.I admit that sometimes the characters seem a little maybe too formal about some things There is First, I would like to say that I love K Ancrum with my entire heart and she is sunshine Secondly, how can any human being not love her prose 1 It s so well paced and inherently cool but at the same time dark aesthetic af 2 You feel like you re still living on earth, but at the same time you re swept up into this surreal dream you have chills all over 3 It s really special.I admit that sometimes the characters seem a little maybe too formal about some things There is some dialogue that feels like the characters are all psychologists therapists discussing things rather than asshole human beings which is everyone in a K Ancrum novel BUT YOU KNOW WHAT I OVERLOOK IT COMPLETELY There s also such diversity Her first book The Wicker King is about two boys who fall in love there is a sprinkle of polyam... The Weight of the Stars is the kind of novel that reminds me of the power of quiet books There are no grand revelations, surprises or explosions just two girls, their friends, and the stars and yet it feels so wide, carrying so much weight sometimes in just a paragraph, so much emotion in the unspoken moments.It does feel like looking at the stars.This is a story about Ryann, a queer butch girl, who falls in love with Alexandria, a biracial black girl whose mother left to live in space and n The Weight of the Stars is the kind of novel that reminds me of the power of quiet books There are no grand revelations, surprises or explosions just two girls, their friends, and the stars and yet it feels so wide, carrying so much weight sometimes in just a paragraph, so much emotion in the unspoken moments.It does feel like looking at the stars.This is a story about Ryann, a queer butch girl, who falls in love with Alexandria, a biracial black girl whose mother left to live in space and never returned to earth It s a story ...The Weight of the Stars is the second book that I have read by K Ancrum The first, The Wicker King, I read along with the Dragons and Tea book club here on Goodreads I loved that book so much that I contacted the author personally to ask for this ARC and bless her heart she was gracious enough to send me this beautiful gift When Ancrum says Love is such an awful, powerful thing, she means to warn you For she breathes it into her prose Her writing is so beautiful that at times you have to The Weight of the Stars is the second book that I have read by K Ancrum The first, The Wicker King, I read along with the Dragons and Tea book club here on Goodreads I loved that book so much that I contacted the author personally to ask for this ARC and bless her heart she was gracious enough to send me this beautiful gi...I VE BEEN BLESSED.thanks to Imprint for the arc o

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17 April 2018

K. Ancrum