Speaking of stories.half way through the book and the closest thing to a story line is the main character increasing stats and rep to make it to a new zone. The other portion of the book takes the most boring parts of crafting and a tiny amount of questing and tries to make a story out of it. I wish this was an over exaggeration but it is not.

Hours of reading a combat log, but with almost no actual combat, just the stats gained from crafting. It is exactly like reading your combat log in game. When this started it wasn't too bad but the farther I get into the book the worse it gets with the stats.

It didn't take long to realize that the majority of the book is nothing more than reading off stats. I made it half way through the book, only because, as a gamer, it started off seeming to be fairly interesting. I don't rate this negatively for that at all. If you don't play video games this book will not make any sense to you. That book could be read by general audiences. If you are unfamiliar with them, or have no interest in them, you will be constantly asking yourself, 'what am I reading?' If you came from a similar genre novel like 'Ready Player One,' don't be fooled, this book is not that. All in all, a novel (or genre) like this is self-selecting. He's not world class, definitely does journeyman work. The reader does a pretty good job of making the individuals distinct. So the characters are a bit contrived and not entirely human, but in the situation, it works ok. It reads a lot like the early levels of a role playing game. If you do not, or get bored easily with this stuff, you probably aren't even considering this book enough to read this review. Basically, if you played WoW or its analogues and loved chasing stats and reading level up messages, you will also love this book. The specifics are well described with lots of 'level up' messages and how that effects the character. If you are a big fan of the mechanics of MMORPGs you will probably like this book. Liked it alright, but I'm a forgiving guy

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