Like the slow revelation of Alexandria and her mother’s backstory, Alexandria and Ryann’s relationship was one of the most gradual, slow-burn romances I’ve ever read. Her description of the implications of space travel are as scientific as they are philosophical a three-hundred page unfolding of the feeling one gets from trying to conceptualize just how big the universe is.
After Alexandria is injured, Ryann helps her onto the roof where her anger dissolves and something deeper grows between them as they stare at the night sky.Īncrum’s writing style is easy to read and incredibly graceful. Her mother went on a one-way mission to space when she was an infant, and Alexandria spends every night trying to catch radio transmissions from the mother she’s never met. Alexandria is angry and keeps to herself, but Ryann soon learns that she has a reason for keeping people at a distance. Orphaned, tough, trailer-park bound Ryann is usually deemed a troublemaker, so she decides to act like one, until a new girl comes to her school. Ryann Bird has always dreamed of the stars, but it’s been a long time since she’s believed she’d ever get the chance to be among them. “Ten million light-years from now bathed in the radiation of a time without time are the bones of a girl who loved Ryann Bird.” She currently writes most of her work in the lush gardens of the Chicago Art Institute.” (Taken from the author’s website.) is a Chicago native passionate about diversity and representation in young adult fiction. Ancrum, is the author of the award winning thriller THE WICKER KING, a lesbian romance THE WEIGHT OF THE STARS and the upcoming Peter Pan thriller DARLING. Content Warnings: Parental death, homophobia, racism, sexual assaultĪbout the author: “K.
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