![]() I still have questions about the people who live on the island the other 99 years and 265 days.). The flap description was more the set up than anything. ![]() (This was not well set up in the book itself. Lightlark is about an island that appears once every 100 years for 100 days, so the rulers of the six realms can try to solve some prophesy to undo curses. I ended up with it, and it took me a couple days to get through it. Welp, it was so bad, neither of us wanted first dibs. I said something about that, then we started talking about how we were interested in it because of the hype/drama and decided to read the first page. ![]() ![]() One of our senior booksellers planned to put it in my locker, but forgot, and someone else picked it up. Normally, we get them a minimum of a month ahead of time. My store got an advanced copy of Lightlark one week before release date, which is pretty sus anyways. ![]() It had really high ratings on Goodreads, until regular reviewers started sharing their thoughts and things went south, both with legitimate negative reviews and ridiculous review bombing. Alex Aster put her book idea on TikTok and the buzz led to a six-figure publishing deal and Universal bought the rights to Lightlark before it ever hit store shelves. If you aren’t on TikTok, you might have missed all the drama about a book that releases soon. ![]()
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