Esteemed game designer and sci-fi author Greg Costikyan had some kind words for Leaving Mundania:

[Stark] shows us what larp is, from the inside — playing long-term boffer larps, staging her own theatrical larp, and journeying to the Nordic countries– to show us the compelling theater/game hybrids that the intellectual and even scholarly communities have created. Her purpose, at which she succeeds, is to convince us that far from being the preserve of the socially crippled, larping is the hobby of kings — and, in careful hands, a strangely powerful new artform all its own.