Todd Heller has always tried to control his fears. Afraid of a boring life, he escapes to the one place where he and his friends can make a difference. A place where he can fight his fears and pit his survival skills against the best. A place called Digital Shadows.
Digital Shadows is the latest craze in Virtual Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing games. The game is based in a virtual world of horror, mystery, secret societies, monsters and shadowy nightmares.
Todd has dreamed of this game since its first introduction. An avid fan of the horror genre, Todd and his friends take the plunge to explore the dark world and fight the terrors within.
But when a glitch effects Todd's ability to log out, the player soon discovers there is something more then a simple game simulation running. Sinister forces converge on the player, eager to claim him for their dark designs and it is up to Todd and his friends to survive the nights ahead of them.
I very much enjoyed what will hopefully be the first in a series of books mixing real life and VRMMORPG settings with some fantastic Lovecraftian horror elements. This is definitely the first novel I've come across which mixes the two for a fantastic tale to read.
I will acknowledge it as LitRPG-lite though since it is a bit lite on gaming elements and mechanics unfortunately but the story is still a fantastic read regardless and highly recommended.
I really enjoyed this book, it felt like I was dropped right into the action. If it was a little bit longer of a book maybe include a bit of world building to explain the classes and roles of the classes.
Good book. A LitRPG set in a horror filled virtual world. But when a player gets stuck in the game his friends do all they can to help him. There is more to the game then anyone could imagine.