Moments after the Jar of Stars is returned to its home dimension with unknown consequences, the Crystal Heart administrator makes a game-wide announcement to all NPCs offering a bounty of godhood to anyone who kills Mark or the ones he loves.
Forced to immediately flee the tree city of Starglade, the only real option is to crack one of Audra’s old Recall Charms and teleport to a location labeled only as “Sanctuary”. But will Sanctuary live up to its name?
Ancient mysteries, withered deities, bizarre societies, and enduring new allies all lie ahead of our heroes in a world dramatically changed by not only the choices they make but by their very presence.
Really enjoying this author. The characters are very developed as I finished the third book in the Mark 2.0 series, looking forward to the next one and additional books in the original series. -I
The changes between this book and Enthralled provide so much interesting diversity of Mark, our main hero and growing badass. I'm so sad that this book ended like it did and I have to wait to return to The Crystal Heart!!
At first I wondered if it was worth continuing Mark 2.0, as the characters were so well developed in Enthralled. I'm glad I stuck with it though as it has proved equally enjoyable!
Looking forwards to the next release, while the combat the occurs isn’t super engaging that’s not what the book is about. It’s more about problem solving, moral choices and their ambiguity and the character development.
Well written as always, but it doesn't clear the 5-star hurdle as to me the sex scenes took up more of the narrative than I think it should. It's upfront what these books are about and I don't have a problem with it, but the balance just wasn't there for me to push it into the top ranks. It did pick up in the last 1/3 of the book, and based on his end notes he had some trouble with parts of it which might explain why it struggled a bit in the early/middle.
Evidently people have told the author that they aren't interested in this as a "side-quest" from the main Enthralled storyline. While this is technically correct, I, who doesn't usually like the side quests either see this as an expansion with sufficient overlap with the main sequence to hold my interest.
In this case in fact I think that this is better than beating Mark 1.99999... and his story to death. Stuff is starting to hit the fan, so I look forward to the next one.