THE WEIGHT OF THE STARS
LIBBY
AMAZON
BARNES & NOBLE
“The Weight of the Stars is one of the most gentle, gracious, and, overall, kind books that I’ve read all year … It’s a YA romance about girls and stars and friendship and mercy and loss and regret and what we owe each other and what we give away to lift each other up … This book is starlight on broken concrete, it’s flowers on a broken rooftop, and it’s a masterpiece.” —Seanan McGuire,
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 more . . .
In K. Ancrum’s signature poetic style, this slow-burn romance will have you savoring every page.
A quiet, generous and sweet lesbian love story about girls who dream bigger than their own universe
A story with a lush, dark atmosphere; heartbreaking circumstances; bright, new love that blossoms from ugliness; and vividly real, magnetic characters.
Their slow-burn romance … is sweetly, devastatingly understated
For readers who are drawn to the unconventional, this will be a satisfying read.
Content Warnings
Features
Swearing, Underage Drug and Alcohol Use (mild: weed, cigarettes one scene with drinking, no dependency or abuse showcased), Absent Parents, Parent Death (off page), Child Abandonment, Mandated Reporter Neglect, Sexual Scenes (Moderate), Bullying, Hospital stay (Brief), Physical Violence, Depression Mention (Brief), Poverty, Criminal Activity, LGBT Themes, Teen Parent,Mute character, Polyamory.
There is a line in this book that I have been informed is abelist where a mute character allows another character to think they’re deaf because they are mute. I will do better in the future.
age rating
This book is recommended for older teens. While this book has highly accessible language, the themes are very mature and I do not recommend readers under 16 years consume this product. The characters in this book all range from 17-19 years of age.
This book would probably not be best for people who have difficult relationships with their mothers because it includes child abandonment and graphic discussions of regret.
This is also an enemies to lovers book with considerable emphasis on them being enemies first.
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