Never heard of Lightlark? The hot topic of Tiktok and YA publishing in August 2022, Lightlark is a very hyped book with a fantasy that soon turned. Not only was much promised content missing, the book was BAD, and the author wasn't quite what she seemed... This is an audio version of a video from A M Blaushild, or Crow-Caller online, from the WordPress review blog CrowDefeatsBooks. I did my best.
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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. This is a book written by an author who is not a writer. It would fit in on the dregs of an amateur writing site with eerie perfection.…
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