Dominion (Awaken Online #4)

In the Awaken Online book series by Travis Bagwell a group of highschool-age kids play an AI controlled virtual reality game.

Dominion is book 4 in the main story arc, but the 6th book in the series (there are some side-quests with half-numbers), and things are really heating up both inside the game and outside of it.

I love the pacing of this book. The plot progresses quickly in-game and a bit more slowly outside of it, which makes for a nice alternating pace. The in-game action scenes remain vivid, although they get a bit long at times.

Nits:

• I wish an editor had caught the number of times the “sickening pop” phrasing it used for Frank’s knee inversion. 🍾😂
• In each book in the main story arc the in-game action and events get bigger and bigger, so I wonder how much longer that can go on.

Those are just minor niggles though, and this was another solid entry in the very enjoyable series. Ten days for 800 pages is definitely above my average page-per-day count. 🤯🎉

Next up in the series is side-quest Unity and after that comes Hellion in the main story arc. I added both to my “Want to read” list, but now first… some other books.