But comfort, familiarity, they're not tangible measures of storytelling quality. I am also that way with certain genres of books or types of movies. Some people like reading 100 different versions of the same kind of book. Yeah.īefore I really lay into this book, I'll say that I understand why people would like it. More accurately, it's ACOTAR meets the Selection. It's a terrible comparison that sets up false expectations.
Also, I can proudly say that any comparison to the Hunger Games is unwarranted. So much of this book is borrowed from ACOTAR that any differentiation from the plot of ACOTAR felt like a subversion of story even if it made perfect sense within Lightlark's narrative. Each scene felt very reminiscent of something out of another YA book. This book is a tiktok success story, an amalgamation of all that tiktok has to offer, and by extension, all the books that are popular on tiktok before it. This book got picked up by a publisher because of tiktok. You can find me over on the storygraph, username bean. I rarely use GoodReads, but because I received an advanced copy of the book, I thought it best to distribute this review across all platforms where I have an account. Focus on actions, on stuff that’s actually happening. This is unproductive and invasive speculation.
This situation could been a constructive conversation about the quality of a book, privileges, the highly commercialized state of publishing, the influence of tiktok, or false advertising, and instead we’re having NONE of those. It’s tacky and uncouth and what bigots do every time there are women in a TV show.
As someone who dropped one of the first comprehensive bad reviews on this book, I just wanna say I do not support the review bombing of it.
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