The pulse-pounding third novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series, The Lightlark Saga, by acclaimed author and #BookTok sensation Alex Aster Love kills kingdoms... Back in Grim's castle ...

Aster and “Lightlark” quickly went viral on “Booktok” — a sect of TikTok where users discuss and set book trends — as readers were excited to finally see a Latina author in the spotlight of the ...

Every hundred years, the island of Lightlark appears for only 100 days to host a deadly game, where the rulers of six realms fight to break their curses and win unparalleled power. Each ruler has ...

The saga of Isla Crown is not yet finished. She can “exclusively share, for the first time ever,” she says, that Skyshade will not conclude the Lightlark series. A fourth book is already on ...

The “Lightlark” book deal earned six figures, enough to quit her day jobs as a freelance editor and TikTok consultant. The sale of foreign-language rights to a dozen different countries ...

Alex Aster "posted into the void" and pitched her novel to TikTok. Now she's an executive producer on the movie adaptation of her New York Times best-selling book.

So BookTok launched Aster’s book — and now BookTok is reading her book. Users getting access to “Lightlark” have had mixed reviews after reading, and are starting to respond on the app.

Aster, 28, didn’t expect Lightlark's success when she shared that initial TikTok, which detailed the book's premise. Soon after, she received a publishing contract and movie deal from Universal ...