Bryan Applegate’s Reviews > LONGSTAR: a novel of the Known Arc > Status Update

I'm at an ending of the main story arc that just keeps giving and giving! The pacing is incredible since there are still over one hundred pages to go!? ☺️

I'm just blasting right through it and really enjoying the balance of multiple narratives. The other book in this universe, Grone, seemed to use multiple narratives in a clumsier way than this installment, but it's been a while.

So delighted! We were a little stuck at the moment inside a small portion of the larger universe, but the writing is nice, and we're beginning to get shades of that larger world building skill Cumby has.

Not gonna lie. It's been a long time since I read the first book. I'm vaguely remembering the very creative and unique structure that combines gameworld with the real world and blurs everything that separates the two within those worlds. Colorful cast, high octane pace, just enough guessing and where's-he-going -with-this mystery to super charge my reading.