The Leveller by Julia Durango

Posted 4 June, 2015 by Danny in Blog, Danny, Danny's Book Review / 1 Comment

So here is the ting, I do love Video Games.. I used to play WoW (no, not Waiting on Wednesday, but World of Warcraft) for quite a while, so the idea of Leveller was right up my alley!

Imagine you could really be in a Video Game! How cool would that be? … and how scary…

In the near (or not so near) future a company developed a that you could get implanted and that would give you the possibility to fall into a sleep-like state and enter a video game with endless possibilities of worlds to explore!

That sounds as cool as it sounds a little scary.. (I mean honestly, a chip in my brain?) And Nix is a girl who is really good at these games, with her parents both being involved in developing the worlds – she is getting paid, to get kids back “home” if they spend too much time virtually, or when (like in the case of Wyn) someone appears to be lost in the virtual world….

The setting and the plot idea is really cool, and I thoroughly enjoyed the setting and world building here!

Nix, our gaming hero, is set on a quest to rescue the cute kid of the Gaming-Company Owner!

So far so good and the plot sounds awesome enough! During her rescue mission, Nix encounters lots of difficulties she has to face and master before she can meet up with Wyn and try to escape together.

Now here comes my problem with the book (and its my personal taste I’m talking about here), the “world” Wyn was trapped it was horribly boring. There are endless possibilities, yet Wyn created the old town where his grandma grew up. I can’t remember what it was but somewhere in south american. And sadly enough this setting bored me so much, that I lost a little bit the excitement about the story. Wyn were both Okish characters that didn’t win me over completely and their chemistry was non-existent (at least for me).

Truly, the idea, the story and the general plot was great, but the details just didn’t win me over. I hope that we will explore different world – exciting worlds in future stories! So, I add a half star for the potential of awesome:)

Bewitched Rating

Bottom Line

The Leveller by Julia Durango comes with such a great promise of awesome worlds to explore and with endless possibilities to make this story epic and awesome. It lacked a little bit of imagination and the characters lack of chemistry made this only an Ok read for me.