It’s a story about the great void of space, but it’s really a story about two girls with seperate trauma falling in love these things can coexist because that is how our world works, as broad conflict merged with small interpersonal griefs. We know these characters and we care about these characters, and so the story becomes one about the people involved in these great space missions, rather than the great space missions themselves. What’s interesting here is that the book sort of starts off as a contemporary romance, and then dives into being sci-fi, but its tone works because the focus stays deeply humanistic. Ryann and Alexandria fall in love and the romance is just… can we talk about tenderness? I'd like to talk about tenderness. Kayla Ancrum is so good at getting you invested in characters in very brief moments. This actually took longer to grow on me than The Wicker King, as it’s definitely just a little more slow burn, but I ended up binge reading it.
➽Ahmed Bateman, Ryann’s best friend and the child of Jack, August, and Riya ➽Alexandria McCallough, black & biracial, the daughter of an astronaut sent to die in space ➽Ryann Bird, trying to raise her brother James and James’ adopted child Charlie. Here, we’re essentially following three lead characters: And the last twenty pages are singlehandedly my favorite thing I’ve read this year. Well-written, existential, and so so deeply human. so kindly offered me an arc of The Weight of the Stars literally months ago, and my reading slump sort of destroyed my reading plans (oops), but. Highly recommend for fans of Come Find Me by Megan Miranda, Midnight at the Electric b Jodi Lynn Anderson, and I Hope You Get This Message by Farah Naz Rishi.Īll joking aside, this book was wonderful. The tone of this book was stunning, it had sharp writing, and knew just how to torture its reader with the teetering emotional and physical state of these character's respective realities. This unlikely duo, along with one of my favourite friend groups of all time, navigate their circumstances and come together in powerful ways. Enter Alexandria, left behind as a baby by her mother on a one way trip to the edge of the solar system. She's from a trailer park on the wrong side of town, and knows her hopes of space travel are out of reach.
Ryann is used to acting out and not expecting a lot of herself. In this book we're following 2 teenage girls, a slow burning hate to love romance, family hardships, and the desperate lure of space travel. What I mean is a story that is character driven, introspective and existential, with science and space being the motivation for the setting, but not the vehicle for the story itself. I feel like calling books like this "quiet science fiction" ? though that's probably not a real term.
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