First off, thank you Reviewer (for the sake of being classy no names) for buying my work!  I truly appreciate your support and input.  And Thank You for the compliment!  “The story was interesting enough to make me likely to purchase the next volume(s) at a $2.99 price tag.”

I sincerely apologize for not making it higher quality.  Yes, I take all complaints seriously and not only am I grateful for the issues you bought up (pushes me to do better), I am glad you were open and nonjudgmental about it.  We all know the difference between constructive criticism and vindictiveness, and you were definitely not the latter.  I’m going to address the issues you’ve mentioned, as I didn’t write the chapters well enough to make things clear.

The complaint as I understand it is that it is hard to tell whether it is 1200 years in the future on another planet, and the only way to know was because I directly described it as so.  This is actually a very deliberate choice on my part because Echo is in a dark age, and the contrast between what is expected 1200 years on a future planet falls far short of what’s actually in the story’s environment.  Even the name “Echo” is a reference to this.  I deliberately made it so that it only seemed that tech had advanced maybe 200 years at the most.  I should have made this clearer, as I remember chapter 3 had the only direct reference to it.  But everything in volume 1 is about the breakdown of Atriya’s inner and outer world-how it should be versus how it is.  Gotta up my game so this kind of thing is clearer and doesn’t happen again, and once again I apologize.

On a superstitious note, I have purposefully put the Asian aversion to the unlucky number “4” in my book.  1200 years in the future denotes the near end of the fourth cycle, or Kali Yuga (the dark age), in Hindu mythology.  There are four Wraiths.  Four opponents in the street fight that is the beginning of the end for Atriya.  I originally envisioned Echo as the fourth seed world from planet Earth, but maybe later.  I want to keep the storytelling tight around Atriya.  But here’s my superstition kicking in…My fourth review is the lowest one yet!  Haha!  Maybe there’s something to it, but I’m EXTREMELY grateful that you still enjoyed the story and supported my work.  And the review wasn’t bad either, it was still 3 stars.  Once again apologies and thank you.  Making writing as clear as possible is a never ending process, and why would we improve if we could satisfy everybody?  I genuinely appreciate the time and effort you took to buy, read, and review the book.  THANK YOU!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂