Hey everyone, Discordant Night here. I have to say something, specifically regarding reivews, comments and followers.

I've written an entire rewrite of the first Lorien Legacies book (I Am Number Four) and posted it on (as I Am Number Three), ONLY TO HAVE SO MANY PEOPLE READ THROUGH AND NOT COMMENT AT ALL. My second book, THIS book, has 5 chapters posted so far, and only 5 reviews. That might not seem significant, but there are 6 people who favorited it, and 7 who followed. It ALSO has 491 views. 491! If even ten percent of them left a review, that would be about 50 reviews! Now, I know that's a LOT, and I'm not expecting people to leave that many reviews all the time. But I KNOW at LEAST 7 of you get the emails saying that this has been updated, and to just ignore them and NOT review? Come on. 5 Chapters. 7 people. That's 35 potential reviews. Do the math.

What you guys don't realize is all there is a LOT of work I go through just to write each chapter. All the research I put in to make each power believeable AND balanced. All the work I put in, writing and rewriting, and editing and revising, and sometimes even reworking the entire chapter, making sure the continuity is correct and the story flows properly. All the planning, plotting, character building I do, JUST TO MAKE YOUR FAVORITE CHARACTERS BELIEVEABLE.

Then, when all THAT is done, I have to balance my work, school and home lives to find time to write out the chapter that you all have been waiting SO long for, type it up, read through it, have my editor (yes, I have one!) read through it to fix any mistakes, then make any last minute additions or changes, THEN, and ONLY then, I can publish it.

And you fuckers can't take 30 seconds to write a comment or a short review of the chapter? Really? What you don't realize is that your comments, your reviews, your input and thoughts and feedback are what drives me to keep going, to continue writing this story that I started in my free time, when I have better things that could be taking my time (you know, like COLLEGE!). Without your feedback, i don't know what you like, what you don't like, how I can improve. Hell, I don't even know if you're even interested in my story and my writing anymore.

Seriously. If you like the story, if you like the chapter, fuck, even if you DONT like the chapter, leave a goddamn review. It helps me more than you could ever know, and it only takes 30 seconds. I spend thousands of times longer than that just writing the damn thing, the least you can do is take 30 seconds to a minute of your day to leave some feedback.

PS: I realize that this is probably going to lose me some subscribers/favoriters/readers, whatever you wanna call them. If this is you, I'm sad to see you go, but honestly? Good riddance. You couldn't be bothered to comment on a story that takes me more time to write than you probably spend sleeping in a month, and if you're one of the ones who are leaving because I'm ranting, so be it. Chances are you didn't comment anyways, and you wouldn't have commented whether I posted this or not.

TL;DR: I spend more time prepping and writing than it takes you to read. Leave a comment, for fuck's sake.

- DN