My first book by this author. This falls into the "litrpg" genre, though I didn't actually realize that until I'd completed the book and saw the afterword from the author that the book was in that genre. Why'd I not notice? Because those books are obsessed with level(s)/leveling/advancing up a ladder (or, in one book case, already being at the top, but still with levels, menus, etc.). This book didn't have that. Though it did have some elements from that genre, like someone from earth being injected into a non-earth realm; dungeons to dive, etc. etc. Though not in the "normal" fantasy way, but in a science fiction way.
Right, so. It's 'our' future. Something around 2375 (book description has it but I don't have that open). Resources are low, and to keep the number of people down, people are both encouraged and forced to go into capsules and enter a virtual world (like the Matrix, 2 or three episodes of Futurama and seemingly millions of other things, so not a new idea). Here we have a young woman of 18 who has been given an order from the government to begin a 'digital' life. There's a backstory about how this shouldn't be happening to her, etc. etc. That gets touched on in the book.
Right, so. 18 year old woman thrust into this situation, given choices of virtual worlds to join, and she joins a fantasy one (though there's still a level of science fiction behind everything, as everyone knows the Gods/Goddesses/magic, etc etc is being powered by computer code). She joins that one 100% because she knows her brother plays in it and she wants to find him to get him to help her.
She ends up being a Kitsune. A mult-tailed fox. In somewhat newly opened virtual world.
Right, so, I enjoyed it well enough, though there were elements of the main character I didn't particularly liked, though eh, whatever.
This is the first book in a series. Would I try the next one? Well, since I started the next one before I marked this one as being read or completed, the answer is, of course, yes.
Would I recommend this book to others? I never know who to recommend litrpg books to so . . . no idea.
Rating: 4.17
September 3 2023