You know I say it, but then I read one, and I give it 5 stars...but I'll say it again. I don't really enjoy contemporaries. But when I do, they tend to be the harder hitting ones. So maybe I'll stick with these type of novels going forward.

THE WICKER KING is a spectacular story. August and Jack are incredibly well written characters. 

The fantastical elements to this story really added a whole new level to what I thought this was going to be about. Those elements of what is real or not made this story even more special.

While I really liked the stylized pages to the book, some of the later chapters were a tad hard to read for my eyes. I just added a second light though and that helped me adjust to it all a bit better.

I definitely would recommend this to anyone that likes hard hitting contemporaries with/without fantastical elements. Definitely going to keep my eye on Kayla Ancrum in the future!