Content Leak: It had several chapters leaked online by one of Stephenie Meyer's beta readers. Meyer felt so betrayed over the whole thing that she scrapped the whole project until 2020 and posted the leaked chapters on her own website.
Dueling Works: The fact that it was rescheduled to summer 2020 put it in direct competition with The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes and Hawk, as all three are continuations of popular YA series from the late 2000's-early 2010's.
