Lightlark 2: The Worst YA Book Returns With Vengeance

Introduction 

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Here we go again.

Lightlark! A viral tiktok book with very little substance. Look, I don’t think I have to give much backstory here, and if you ever need four to seven hours of explanation, I can suggest a few videos. Lightlark is not worth obsessing over, even as a hater. 

That is why I really do not obsess over it. Rather, it has emerged in my life like a malevolent spectre, coming back a year later to terrorize me for a fitful week before I can again rest. I did not set out to write a four hour review of a bad book last time, I just had 27,000 words to say about it. Here, a year later, with its fame mostly forgotten, I welcome the ghast of Lightlark 2 back inside my body for the sake of entertainment.

After all, I’ve read a lot of people’s comments on the matter over the last year. 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. A lot of people seemed to think the first book was Like That just because it was a pet project she’d had since being a teen, and that writing another might force her to have original thoughts.

So I’m here for all you people, and for all the mischievous freaks who enjoy learning about trashfires they never have to actually read: I read Nightbane, and get this, you won’t believe it, but- 

It was exactly as bad as Lightlark.

Let’s see how long it takes me this time.