the crave series was sued for plagiarism & alex asters new book - bookhater club episode 23

[@februerik]

"got the bag i wanted on sale, got free coffee, made 3 euros" GIRL IS BLESSED 👏🏼👏🏼

[@bluebirdeyes]

Alex Aster's publishing genre ages with her. She started out Middle Grade, then Young Adult, and now Adult. What's her next series' age group gonna be, Middle Aged? Elderly?

[@LilyEvans1996]

I think that is totally fine no? It's logical. My reading age group changed as well as I got older. Makes sense for the same to happen to writing, whether you like her books or not.

[@bluebirdeyes]

@@LilyEvans1996 I notice my characters aging with my own writing too, it's just funny that she's done exactly one series of each age group like she's going down a list. (She did skip New Adult but that doesn't fit my joke haha)

[@larynadams1127]

@LilyEvans1996 I think its funny purely bc her writing don't mature eith the age demographic she's trying to write to

[@TheAdarkerglow]

To check a horse's age and relative health, you check its teeth. Horse gums recede as they age, thus the idiom 'Long in the tooth' to mean 'old', and poorly maintained teeth can indicate long term issues. A more modern version of 'Looking a gift horse in the mouth' would be something like checking the engine of a free car, and it's essentially telling the person giving the gift that you're worried they're giving you a faulty or otherwise broken product. After that one Agent went on twitter looking for someone to rewrite a submission because she didn't seem to like the original author, I would bet that not only did they take her manuscript and pass it along to someone else to 'get something out', I would bet it's relatively common. I do not trust the publishers one bit.

[@meenalkaur1458]

My greatest achievement is the fact that i saw Alex Aster's post on instagram and sent it to Sophie and then she talked about it and mentioned me on her podcast😭😭😭

[@mayrarara]

As a Tracy Wolff hater, I had no idea she was getting sued & I’m upset no one told me

[@bubbletea188]

Why do you hate her? I feel out of the loop. 😂

[@mayrarara]

@@bubbletea188 oh it’s only because I hated the Crave series lol

[@michelle-ev3me]

i read the tracy wolff lawsuit document and it’s crazy how she got off with no consequences bc she straight up ripped off that poor woman’s story

[@bhsprinkle]

That was a lot of good evidence.

[@thebookcorner1072]

Where is this document at? I can't find it anywhere.

[@bhsprinkle]

@@thebookcorner1072 I saw a link to it & screenshots on Threads.

[@marianamauricio]

34:08 that reads like a wattpad fanfic written by an 11 year old girl 💀

[@talbrun]

About the Alex aster excerpt, No because really if they make the mmc any bigger and somehow not wider in realistic fiction he will be an actual fantasy giant or slender-man and I’d rather read that honestly 😅 also where was the editor?

[@asteriaaa16]

sophie's camera is a bigger hater than any of us could ever be

[@honestlysophie]

honestly so true

[@JordanS-ww4eu]

@@honestlysophieyou’re even prettier as a brunette

[@TheCgulledge]

Plaque is said plack :)

[@srose1088]

"Things that go bump in the night" just means things that make unexplained noises of movement in the night and typically refers to the supernatural. Like when you're in bed and you hear a noise but pretend it's just house settling.

[@M1nt.n1te]

I’m English we say “don’t look a gift horse in the mouth”

[@QueenSiv]

17:40 ADDS CHARACTER AND I STILL DRANK IT HAHAHA THATS literally what I would’ve said and done lmao and Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth means that you don’t want to check the age and quality of a horse you get for free because it makes you ungrateful!! Just in case for the non horse girls

[@mcthurman8822]

Fun listen. I live in New Mexico and it’s about 29 degrees Celsius, but that’s at 6ish in the evening. I would hate to be without cooling. We have an evaporative cooling system that works pretty well, except when it’s humid. It can lower the house temp by 20 degrees F, but when it’s humid it only goes down about 5.

[@QuilavaChick]

Quicksilver was an okay quick read for me. It will probably blow up if booktok girlies get to it, it’s got the mates trope, a broody love interest, and not just fae but also vampires. The world and lore was actually kind of interesting though? So despite insta-love and cliche it was still a decent read for me. Still hated the mates thing. It’s always mates.

[@probablybri]

That quicksilver book showed up in my feed right after you posted about it in your story

[@mrspreminger]

It’s ok Sophie, I’m one of the people that knows you as the Alex Aster hater

[@Moonsnailthegreat]

Btw, I like just discovered u like a couple months ago and I literally love ur content😋 like I think ur so funny and I like putting on ur videos to draw and clean and like literally anything. I even watch them while I work out bc I like the summaries u give! I’m honestly shocked that u don’t have like a million billion subs by now, but like u will get there one day 🥰

[@ladyconstellation7395]

when you started talking about the demigod camp book that you wanted to write I realized I had a similar experience:) When I was 10 I tried to write a book about four girls that are the daughters of some greek gods and get sent to a palace school or sth (I didn't know PJO existed either)

[@m_6nus]

0:45 👁👄👁 I beg ur finest pardon?? Rebecca whooo

[@TheCgulledge]

I started reading Quicksilver and I don't think I even made it 10 percent in. I hated the male main character. My best friend loved it though.

[@honestlysophie]

feel like it’s super generic 😩

[@Anna-lu3zp]

not me singing the hamilton "And get away" at the exact same time as you 😭😂 love you, you're the best, Sophie ❤

[@AurYouReading]

I see why Alex Aster is your enemy.

[@cloudyrainee]

I personally think you can have two equal arch enemies :) Also, the questionable stuff in the book community will never stop, so the bookhater club will have something to cover for long-term :D

[@anysnameever3872]

The comment about the gecko made me snort, it’s not funny but the delivery of the news just got me 😭

[@thebookcorner1072]

I think that Freemen should publish the book that these two women had notes on. And let's see what happens when Wolff takes her to court. I think it will be one funny thing.

[@sarahkohrmanFREEPALESTINE]

I can’t believe it’s already ep 23

[@wormdoodles]

So I know nothing about the Crave stuff but I'm sorry, hearing "descendent from one of the twin goddesses" in connection to a vampire book instantly makes me think of the Vampire Chronicles lmao. That's a huge plot point in the third book. I also fucking hate that storyline but that's neither here nor there lmao.

[@oneinathousand2156]

Billionaire love interests are bad enough, but a tech CEO love interest??? Barf. Would love for Aster to write a subversion like he’s not the end love interest but I doubt that’s gonna happen. Also, Parker Warren sounds like a farmer name, the only Parker I’ve ever known is my late rice farming great-uncle who was born in the early ‘30’s.

[@andreacamara7050]

We have the same saying here in Brazil about a free horse 😅 ah, well, 32 Celsius degrees is very hot and where I live is pretty much that temp everyday hahahhaha good luck girl 😊 I love your videos 🎉

[@larynadams1127]

29:25 "The hash singing-the trash bringing- the sash....swinging " 😂

[@rubeuspotter719]

Yesss the hash slinging slasher

[@moonmoss3745]

sophie , ur my spirit animal ilysm

[@bhsprinkle]

Didn't know the Tracy Wolff lawsuit was resolved yet. She got off. The evidence was overwhelming. I'm not surprised though. She could probably afford a really good lawyer. She has influence in the book world & a huge set of publishers backing her. She could be innocent. I really wouldn't know. We're all just here reading the papers.

[@fatimawithaddedspice]

The author she plagiarized from is an attorney I’m NOT EVEN JOKING

[@bhsprinkle]

@@fatimawithaddedspice that makes it worse.

[@sleepysadpoet]

I kinda gave up on crave when she started using personality disorders as insults tbh in reference to hudson

[@Keter9793]

I think more than anything this lawsuit highlights general lack of originality in populal paranormal romanse.

[@marianamauricio]

5:21 those pictures are so cute!!! 🥹

[@Bbmoney244]

I hope Lyne gets the justice she deserves. So may good authors never get a shot because people claim their work. Again, I read the document and the similarities were wayyyyyy too similar

[@cedartonk3382]

The Alex asteroid book sounds just like Beach Read by Emily Henry

[@itsmilesy_]

Honestly, big picture/overall story? I'd say I'm team Freeman. Big and small things are all too similar. Especially given that it's several similarities not just one or two out of coincidence because we're all using the same dictionary. Even if it's a subconscious thing maybe? The agents and whatever, will have had that story idea in their subconscious since they read it from Freeman, and then have basically outlined what Wolf needed to write. So it's not really Freeman vs Wolf, it's more Freeman vs entangled or whatever

[@theaawalker]

Lemme get comfortable

[@internetsuchtixd747]

Ok sorry but I'm looking at the thumbnail and is that the new Fourth Wing book? The subtitle "Flammengeküsst" reminds me of something I've read on a German book (I speak German) but I can't remember where...

[@okayso...3665]

I have issues with sweating too, and found out last year that you can actually get help and medication for hyperhidrosis from a dermatologist. it changed my life omg. I swear this is not a spam comment, just hopefully informative and/or helpful. Also, I live in NYC. Saying something feels like walking around NYC In the summer is NOT a compliment.

[@ceciflores2696]

The way you feel about Alex Aster is the way I feel about Tracy Wolfe.

[@rom.na005]

27:55 So Alex Aster's romance book is exactly like beach read by Emily Henry but in an apartment instead of a beach house Got it

[@rubeuspotter719]

I’m a unofficial book hater. I’ll casually hate on a book and refuse to read it if it’s super popular, just because it’s popular 😂 I’m just weird like that. Don’t get me wrong I read popular books, but not fourth wing or acotar

[@probablybri]

It's a good day to be a book hater

[@elmeelee4109]

what an exciting title

[@RustBetweenTelephones]

Luv you Sophie

[@RaeranDaen]

alex aster is also my number 1 enemy

[@marocat4749]

Do a demigod boarding school, of norse gods? i support that somewhat did a babylon 5 startrek ds9 pasing on an idea?

[@sleepysadpoet]

Not Kim Kardashian 😭

[@jim-bob3093]

Tracys make up, lord i thought she was made of wax

[@macdaniels9887]

Hi gurlyy

[@bylottie]

except that it wasn't dismissed. she has pending litigation in like 4 states against everyone that published crave. did you just look at that one document and not do any more research or...

[@anastasiaanastasia4013]

23:51 Junge was is das fürn Satz ????

[@sao-me1lt]

Ur so funny ahahjds the excerpt 😭It's already trash

[@georgehenry1104]

I found your channel a few years ago by searching up hate for the folk of the air trilogy and have stuck every since 😭 thank you for being the hater you are queen ❤

[@sarahkohrmanFREEPALESTINE]

When is the boyfriend reveal??