![]() ![]() ![]() But still, it went viral, and soon she had a six-figure (aka 100,000 or more) publishing deal for two books of LightLark. It’s a pretty fine pitch for a book, but to me isn’t exactly gripping. You can view the original ‘pitch’ here– a fifteen-second slapshot of some basic images, her scrolling through a word doc, and a hair flip by the author. ![]() It was sold on and by that mysterious place. The Hype and Hate of LightLark onlineīut Lightlark is more than that. It would fit in on the dregs of an amateur writing site with eerie perfection. This is a book written by an author who is not a writer. ![]() Lightlark is joyless, a husk beyond parody, a checklist of every Island of Blood and Bone and Glass and Hearts that has come out in the last five years, built and sold on tropes and aesthetic boards. Even in quite bad books there’s a joy to them, in things that they get right, or have potential, or even the silliness. I’m not a ‘hater’: I go into any bad book with a very open mind, knowing bad is subjective, and I’ve been surprised before. I don’t really shy away from it in real life, online I tend to cloak it so I don’t get mauled in real-time. Or find it on podcast apps as audio only. You can listen/watch this review in a 4 hour video form if you’d prefer. ![]()
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