#k. ancrum

[fallingrainandburningsuns]

"What's you favorite trope"

"Its' obviously enemies to lovers"

"That's such a basic bitch answer-"

"You want a real answer?! Its pale sad boys with star metaphors attached falling in love with a boy who's literally the sun! Look it up!"

[queer-book-character-tournament]

Character, book, and author names under the cut

Maud Blyth/Violet Debenham- A Restless Truth by Freya Marske

August Bateman/Jack Rossi- The Wicker King by K. Ancrum

Mahit Dzmare/Three Seagrass- A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine

Ronan Lynch/Adam Parrish- The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater

[brightbeautifulthings]

Did you think it would mean nothing to feel your smile before it hits our face? Or know that it twists your heart to see certain run-down things around here? What it would mean to feel you crying, lonely, mad as a hornet, happy so big it feels like the sun is rising, all day every day until I look for it? Long for it? How could anyone feel that and not eventually get a little sweet on you is a mystery me.

— K. Ancrum, The Corruption of Hollis Brown

[bookaddict24-7]

(New Young Adult Releases Coming Out Today! (April 22nd, 2025)

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Have I missed any new Young Adult releases? Have you added any of these books to your TBR? Let me know!

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New Releases:

The Corruption of Hallis Brown by K. Ancrum

The Summer I Ate the Rich by Maika Moulite & Maritza Moulite

If We Were A Movie by Zakiya N. Jamal

Murder Between Friends by Liz Lawson

The Flip Side by Jason Walz

Cope Field by T.L. Simpson

Voice of the Ocean by Kelsey Impicciche

Under the Fading Sky by Cynthia Kadohata

An Ugly World for Beautiful Boys by Rob Costello

New Sequels:

Iron Tongue of Midnight (The Forge & Fracture Saga #3) by Brittany N. Williams

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Happy reading!

[slaughter-books]

💞 All the beautiful books and graphic novels I read in, 2024! 💞 I love them all and I can't wait to read more in 2025! 💞

[cat-crowned-8]

hi I need all of you to read "icarus" by k. ancrum

it somehow twines together relationship dynamics from sunseeker, wolfstar, and andreil.

even though i've never read it, I know it is vaguely reminiscent of art heist baby simply by theme

icarus and Helios were literally born for each other everyone pls read this I am begging you

[captainjackscoat]

someone please talk to me about Icarus by K Ancrum because I think about that book at least once a day and certain scenes and lines from it altered my function in about five different ways

[yourfaveisintersex]

Helios from Icarus by K. Ancrum is canonically intersex!

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

Books of 2025: DARLING by K. Ancrum.

I didn't mean to binge this in a sitting and a half on a Sunday afternoon, but that's heat advisories for you, I guess. Hello, Contemporary Peter Pan Retelling, and WHAT a gorgeous cover you have.

I read somewhere that this is a super faithful adaptation (like. Beat by Beat fidelity with the source material), which seemed like a neat trick given how utterly Contemporary this was versus the magic of the original. Admittedly, I haven't revisited that source material in many years, but I was pleasantly surprised by how many specifics came back to me as I read through Ancrum's adaptation--Peter's shadow became a jacket, the Mermaid's Lagoon became a drag bar (staffed, yeah, by mermaid-themed queens), flying was scaling Chicago trellises, pirates were cops, etc. Tink (beloved) was there, Nana was there, the Crocodile was there, Detective Hook (begrudgingly beloved) was there, and also there was an ace Russian boy and I love ace Russian boys (iykyk).

I thought Ancrum did a good job keeping the classic children's story tone intact despite the (brutal, brilliant, Holy Shit!!) twist. Although it didn't initially send me, the straightforward, clean prose anchored me to the source story, and by the end I was firmly sold on "good stylistic choice." Overall I had fun!! Planning to revisit it with the source text in the other hand sometime, just to see.

[lov3rgrrrl]

i love you icarus gallagher local touch deprived high school boy

[litandlifequotes]

There are so many books written about the weak learning to be strong and not many about the strong opening themselves up to weakness and vulnerability.

Icarus by K. Ancrum

[lgbtqreads]

Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Young Adult Fiction: January-June 2025

Today’s post is sponsored in honor of the upcoming paperback release of Sydney Taylor Honor book Going Bicoastal, coming May 27th from Wednesday Books! *** The Last Bookstore on Earth by Lily Braun-Arnold (January 7th) The world is about to end. Again. Ever since the first Storm wreaked havoc on civilization as we know it, seventeen-year-old Liz Flannery has been holed up in an abandoned…

[brightbeautifulthings]

'You're just a house I'm haunting.'

— K. Ancrum, The Corruption of Hollis Brown

[clarj]

I want to bury them deep in my chest

[slaughter-books]

Day 5: JOMPBPC: Harcover Or Paperback?

I love a good hardcover, especially when they don't have their dust jackets on! 💛

[libraryleopard]

icarus's reaction to learning that his love interest, helios, is intersex in icarus by k. ancrum is one of the sweetest thing i've read in a long time and having somewhat recently read alicia roth weigel's memoir inverse cowgirl in which she talked a lot about the shame and confusion of growing up intersex without the proper understanding or acceptance of her identity, i think it's really wonderful that intersex teenagers can read a book where a character like them is treated with such respect and love