u/Fightlife45

So, there was some controversy over a self published book called "Shy Girl," by Gia Ballard. The book was accused of AI (honestly I think it was at least partially written by AI) and since has been taken off of shelves.

But that aside, this book did really well on its own, before getting picked up by a large publishing house.

My question is, how? The book is terribly written, AI or not. On top of that the page count is only like 200 pages. How can this book get so much traction?