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Aaron Carling's avatar

All caught up! What an interesting turn of events! I kind of like how the narrative is mirroring the quote earlier about seeing how big the gap is between what you know and what you need to know to accomplish a task.

It all seems like such a huge goal, but, logically, you still need to take those little steps to even attempt world, and eventually, galactic peace.

I will echo Sean's sentiments in that, even though I read this through in one sitting, there are countless other stories you have shared and published that readers will also want to read that getting facts, names, and places straight would prove difficult. Maybe publishing in arcs? Keep the chapters for structure reasons, but publish a bunch of chapters at once that make up the current arc? Just spitballing.

I really love Esther and her attitude, as well as how this is all shaping up. We finally have everyone in the same room (essentially) and I can't wait to see what they get caught up in now.

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Sean Worsley's avatar

This is going to sound weird, and maybe it is because I am being silly, but I've never read a book like this before (Where I have a week in between each chapter). As a result, there are often times I have to go back and remember different names to characters. Would it be possible to have some sort of a quick key at the top to remember which names are what characters? It could be legitimately 1 line or a couple words even, just so that it is easier to reference than past chapters? Like “New characters introduced in this chapter” or "main characters" or --well, you get it.

When reading a book in a more traditional sense straight through, it is usually much more clear when a new character is introduced. Reading like this though, week to week, SO much time and other materials have been consumed between each chapter that I genuinely have to be like "Wait is this a new character, or did I forget I met them earlier?”

Maybe it's because I'm tired. Feel free to ignore.

Anyway, great chapter as usual!

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