Chasing Sunlight

This one has stayed with me for some time. I'm probably 10-15 books past it and yet the brilliance and creativity in the world and story left their mark. If you have any interest in Mythos or the occult, this is for you. If you have any inkling of what it feels to discover an alien, inimical land, this is for you. If you're like me, and for both of those, perhaps it too will stay with you for some time. 

I do not really write reviews, as I don't have the patience usually to type out everything I feel about any piece of literature. Maybe some passing thoughts, but rarely anything noteworthy or close to the meticulousness of an actual critic. But damn, I liked the story so much, I just have to sperg a little.

I have really enjoyed the strained intensity this story offers. It is felt the entire way through, the uneasiness, oh man.

Jonathan is a damn menace. No stumbling moron, no overindulged edgelord. Crusader-like in his disposition. He's strong. Not crazy kill the world strong, but that isn't needed in this story whatsoever. He's fucking cool.

The worldbuilding is insane, in every way. Titans, curses, the lot. My only gripe is that... a bit too much is left up to interpretation. But, seeing as the weirdness of a sunless world is only felt from the readers perspective, it does make sense that myceliplanks are nothing extraordinary or fascinating to anyone in the story.

Gotta mention, the Crimson Caldera is supremely cool, I love the concept a lot, I can barely imagine what it looks like!

Also, recently played Lorn's Lure, and that game combined with this story made me imagine colossal damn visages.

I love me some book of hours type fiction. I love non Euclidean geometry.

The background world building is really good too.

So yeah, this is a really good story.

I would really like to know what in the world zint is though 

Why must my review be 50 words long anyway?

There is not much to say. Expect this is one of the best books I have ever read.

Masterly crafted to make you feel like you have finished a incredible journey with the MC. Every step and conflict from the MC view. All to tie up with an ending that makes you feel like the MC in that moment.

The story kept me on my toes from beginning to end. The protagonist isn't unrealistic in his ideals and has a very human and necessarily attractive quality about him that I found most refreshing. 

Super original world building and very creative in the sence that I never quiet knew where the story would go. 

It was a satisfying read and would totally read it again. Even though I've read more of this writers works, and this is not the most popular one, I recon it's one of his most creative and best pieces.

The description is true — this story is unlike many other stories on this site, and it's a part of what makes it a worthwhile read. World building is what I'm most interested in when reading a book, trying to puzzle out how the forces unseen work, and what makes the world tick. In Chasing Sunlight the world is unlike anything I've seen before, the reality woven from odd and nonsensical things that somehow combine into a compelling and fascinating universe. Thank you for this book!

16 chapters into Chasing Sunlight and I'm not a fan. It is extremely dense in things culturally or technically fantastical but without providing much of an underlying framework that even a good portion into the book, new things are still so new that the reader wont have any ability to draw upon past knowledge to better grasp it. I get that it is an eldritch genre so a lack of understanding is somewhat required but with the MC seemingly knowing most solutions to these "impossible to know" factors it feels more like soft-magic where anything is permitted and thus anything can happen so there are no true risks because the reader can't know what is insurmountable and what isn't.

It‘s a great storry. The way the author build this truly alian world is just facinating. Every episode a new place is discovered and every single obe operates by different rules, some of which feel truly alian and unknowable. As someone who is mist interested in worldbuilding in a book, this feels like desert.

The main character changes verry litte throuout the book and is motivated by nothing other than his obsession with sunlight driving him forwards and the people around him away. The characters aren‘t the strongest, or most important part of the novel, but they are unique enough and with their own motivation for beeing there. 

I can‘t say exactly why, but the writing style feels higher quality compared to most books on this site. 

At the end of my rambling I would like to thank the Author for the great book and for publishing it for free!

For now i like the style the caracters and of course the premise, i founded a challenge to immerse myself in a fully dark world !! i was always picturing everything in daylight, so its an obstacle that the author has to overcome, for now its going really well and i fully support the effort. Cant wait for more chapters !

I really enjoyed how different it is to everything else I previously read. World building, overall story and the pacing were very good.

However I did feel like the main character is because of his single-minded focus rather boring. I would have liked more interpersonal dialogues and relationships with his fellow travellers. Maybe he could have convinced someone to join him in the end? I get why it was done this way and maybe it makes for a more focused story but I nonetheless missed something.