Asha Denhoy If you have been in a bookstore in the past few years, you have probably walked past a table with a sign that says ‘BookTok.’ The books on this table probably consist of a mix of romance books with cute cartoon covers and fantasy novels with complex symbols and dragons. BookTok, the reading subgenre of Tiktok, has changed the publishing industry. More and more, books are marketed by their ‘tropes’, and in my opinion, the quality of novels has drastically decreased