Thread:StoryGirl83/@comment-33834897-20181201214203/@comment-3452092-20181201233605

Hard to say. I hope the latter, but fear the prior. I think that long of a delay concerns me. I don't recall any of the breaks being that long. That is, after all, more than three months of delays. It is a good break point with an exceptional cliffhanger. I feel like it would have made a good place to end the book and then lead into a second book where such a length of a break would make more sense.

I wish that people would vent on places like this, but hold their dislike from actual contact with Social Media. The exceptions to that would be when they can form their dislike into a positive. For example upset that a certain character isn't a love interest, say how much they wish they were because they think the character is so awesome. Upset that a book isn't out, express how much they are looking foreward to the book coming out.

It does get trickier when you have some of the complaints people have for this, but being upset that you don't spend enough time with a love interest can be phrased positively, too. You could say how much you hope to see them in the coming chapters or make "offhanded" comments about ways that they could be included more.

The one thing that does give me hope is that they literally introduced a new love interest in the latest chapter. If they were planning on stopping to shorten the series, it would make more sense to take out the lines of code that made him a love interest and just show him as Eos's former partner with no romantic interactions or if they wanted the romantic interactions, but not the love interest, just allow for the idea that by player choice they used to have a connection, but won't going forward. It is possible that he is in response to people who wanted Zekei for the MC, but still wanted a male LI for Eos, which would lead me to believe that they changed things based on what people said, but in a way that is hopeful for the continuation of the series. It's possible that he was a last minute addition and that the break is not to find a way to end things, but instead is to find a way to integrate him and maybe other love interests better.

It is lovely to chat with another Across the Void fan. I enjoy that since it sometimes seems like there are only two of us on this wikia.