#like why do they keep doing this? whyyyyyy you look like fools trying to slum it just STOP

[dontforgetoctober3rd]

i hate it when rich ass kids try to buy The Struggle. You have everything else in the world handed to you but you ain't getting this, baby! hahahahahha

In today's book community drama...

So basically, people found out that the author of that new book Lightlark aka Alex Aster is from an incredibly wealthy family: her twin sister (look up the Pierson twins, they're pretty well known) is worth over 200 million dollars because she's an entrepreneur (or something, idk) and she has a company with Selena Gomez, and their parents are also incredibly rich (Jacksonville royalty? idk). I believe she's also friends with Addison Rae (idk who this is but I saw people on Twitter pointing this out).

So, she got a seven-figure deal for Lightlark out of nowhere really and the book also got a movie deal from Universal and the producers are gonna be the people who produced Twilight... but the book is also not even released yet.

Then when readers were discussing whether or not she's an industry plant on TikTok, she wrote a whole ass essay in the comments about why she's "fortunate but has zero connections whatsoever". The book also got blurbed by a ton of big authors, including Chloe Gong and Victoria Aveyard, the latter ardently defending her. I believe she also had a dealership with Toyota at one point, as well as a brief TikTok music career. See, within the last few months the book has been trending a shit ton on booktok because she's got a big following and is kinda pitching her publishing story as a kind of "rags to riches" situation.

I also heard the book is Not Well Written because it reads like an acotar-hunger games fanfiction.