Jonathan Brooks

A young girl without a voice gets in a dangerous situation and finds herself in a hospital. to ease the healing time her best friend brings her a virtual reality kit and she emerges in a new world.
With no idea about MMORPGs she starts to discover the world and also discovers that she has a voice in that world. She makes friends with NPCs and Player and starts adventuring as a bard.
I really enjoyed this book. I always loved bard stories, i love stories that take the game world serious and are not about solving instances without following the world story behind.
The social interaction between the MC and the two girls she groups with is very nice.
On the down side (there is a reason for not giving more points of course) there is serious overpowering happening. Charisma points are just raining down on that bard. And - even when I have nothing against stories to have sex scenes i thought it somehow misplaced as there was no lead up to it and it somehow didn't fit into the story flow for my taste. but it was written okay and was more about love then about sex.
Also she lets get herself steamrolled by the companies boss. A bit more haggling would have been nice.
Nevertheless a good book and i am already downloading the next book of the series.… (más)

I am not really a big fan of dungeon core stories - the reason is that the motivations for the sentient dungeons are always hard to grab and often feel constructed.
I gave this a shot anyway.
In this book a human form child of two dungeon cores finds himself suddenly orphaned and in the world of humans. He joins the dungeon adventurers syndicate and explores dungeons with the goal to learn what happens to his parents.
The book takes a longer start. For me interaction is one of the most important things in books and here it starts only after a third of the book.
Nevertheless the "system" how the world functions is interesting to read and the book has some nice ideas. Personally i think the MC has it a bit too easy.
But well - the book was well written and entertaining. If you are into dungeon core stories it may appeal to you.… (más)