Depressing Read
This may contain some spoilers, though unintentionally. First, the author does a good job of creating this story and moving it forward. The characters seem a bit two dimensional and never really get fleshed out. The game world he creates is the most depressing environment where kill or be killed, dog eat dog, trust nobody is the prevailing theme. It stretched my imagination too far to believe anyone would create a game world that no one in their right mind would want to play. Especially if their goal was to make money. For me to enjoy a book, I want to be able to identify with some of the characters. I couldn't, there is no fun in the book. No real humor, no light moments; yes there should be challenges for the protagonist, but it can't be weighted negatively with the few advancements being to few and hardly enough for a promise things will get better. (Sorry for the long sentence.) I gave it 3 stars because the writer is not "bad" at writing. The story didn't do it for me. I would not recommend this book, nor will I be purchasing any more of the series.