Nightbane (The Lightlark Saga Book 2): Alex Aster (The Lightlark Saga, 2)

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i’m literally going to tell you the plot, so if you care, run run run as fast as you can and get out of here! even more ironic, years before, a different musician won a copyright suit claiming “creep” was copying their song. even historic lore is obfuscated in service of a surprise reveal that the book speedruns through in the final 3%. Alex Aster is an author of YA fiction as well as award-winning middle grade fiction, including the Emblem Island series, which was published to critical acclaim.

Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. Because this is marketed at YA, most of these scenes end with some bullshit excuse for why they can't bone.Aster has a dedicated audience of more than 905,500 followers on TikTok with 100 million views, and 60K followers on Instagram. looking over that review, i stand by it and am here to report that the prose was less try-hard lyrical and adverby. It's meant to be a little silly, but I really don't get the point in bringing it up or saying it aloud when the book doesn't attempt to interface with the actual politics of war or democracy or monarchies in any meaningful way. the copy i read said it was 600 pages long, so that’s the metric i’m going to describe it by (it also felt 600 pages long), even though goodreads says it’s only 300 and something. i don’t particularly like isla and i don’t like either of the “love interests,” oro or grim, but she should not have been with oro.

Worse, her fellow rulers haven't ceded victory quietly, and there are others in Isla's midst who don't believe her ascent to power was earned. It feels like it doesn’t matter because everyone is just using their starsticks to portal around and hook up.I have my criticisms about how in books like this, race only feels skin deep, but an attempt was made. no matter how much aster tries to get me to invest in grim and his attraction to isla, i'm never moved. A lot of people seem very hopeful that tiktok popular kid Alex Aster will have improved and taken the critique her book received to heart.