After far too many hours of toilling, it's here! I am not a youtuber and I don't plan to be, but after writing a long, long review over on my blog (CrowDefeatsBooks), I know I needed to do an audio/visual version. This turned out to be a very difficult thing to do. Shout-out to @Soundalch on Twitt for sound work.
LightLark is a really bad book. No, it wasn't AI written. Yes, it's worth 100,000$. Let me tell you all about it: Spoilers. Analysis. Horror.
My name is A M Blaushild and let me tell you about Lightlark.
ORIGINAL TEXT REVIEW is over on CrowDefeatsBooks- most of this is a straight reading!
Original review below, which can serve as a transcript or read along... I may do captions eventually but I'm burned out rn!
https://crowdefeatsbooks.wordpress.com/2022/09/16/tiktok-sensation-lightlark-is-the-final-boss-of-bad-fantasy-ya-a-failure-built-on-aesthetic-boards-and-tropes-unable-to-pretend-it-has-a-heart/
00:00 Intro
02:52 TikTok and Drama
08:56 The Premise
12:40 Pre-plot
23:30 Pre-plot 2: Powers, Curses
31:23 PLOT
42:28 Day 0 to 25: Demonstrations
54:31 Day 25 to 50: Pairing up
1:01:17 Day 50 to 75: Fighting is legal
1:11:14 Day 75 on: Fight is still legal
1:20:09 PLOT TWIST CORNER
1:32:51 Epilogue
1:35:12 The Worldbuilding
1:45:17 THE ABBEY OFFENSE
1:48:20 A paper thin world
1:54:04 Money and Powers
1:59:30 Curses and Powers Beatdown
2:13:42 CHOCOLATE!
2:19:45 The Bad Prophecy
2:33:38 Characters
2:54:26 Isla: Perfection in Flesh
3:05:48 Isla: Stone cold assassin
3:11:41 Isla: The best fighter ever
3:15:33 The writing
3:27:35 How did we get here?
3:41:02 Why? Why? Why?
3:48:01 End cards/credit
3:48:24 Post credits: Hi :0