Level: Unknown by David DalglishMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Back Cover Blurb:
When an ancient alien artifact chooses research cadet Nick to explore the world stored within it—a place full of forgotten empires, heroes with strange powers, and monstrous creatures that he is automatically transported to when he sleeps—he finds he has no choice but to grow stronger within the realm of Yensere to uncover its mysteries.
But Yensere isn’t all fun exploration. In this land guided by statistics and levels, Nick is seen as a demonic threat by its diseased inhabitants and always killed on-sight. When he dies in Yensere, he awakens in his bed upon the research station, his body in a state of panic; when he sleeps again, Yensere drags him back for another life...and another death.
Nick can only keep this up for so long before he dies for real. But there’s a good chance Yensere holds the key to saving humanity from a terrible fate, and so he ventures on, getting stronger and stronger with each new enemy defeated. And there are a LOT of enemies to defeat…
Review:
This one is a bit of a departure for prolific fantasy author David Dalglish as he tried his hand at some LitRPG. I'm a huge fan of David's and his epic fantasies are some of my all-time favorites so to have a chance to read something out of his usual wheel house was intriguing for me. As I settled into the story I quickly realized that Dalglish can write whatever he wants because he has the chops to pull it off.
The pacing of this story is also somewhat different from the usual gradual buildup that Dalglish employs in his series. I feel like my head was spinning the entire time as we are dumped right into the action and it never really lets up. To say this is a fun book would be an understatement as the world building comes at you in waves and every hit to the system dazzles and fills you with wonder. I could almost see David banging away at his keyboard feverishly with a devilish grin on his face knowing that he was going to put the reader through a bevy of crazy moments and dangerous action scenes.
All in all I had a really enjoyable time reading LEVEL: UNKNOWN and I hope there are more books following this one because I really want to immerse myself in this world again. It was quite the refreshing change for me as I normally dig into long (and sometimes long-winded" fantasy books so to eb able to read something akin to a fantasy action movie totally hit the spot and cleansed my palate so brilliantly.
If you haven't read any David Dalglish, you need to start. The guy just keeps churning out winner after winner in the fantasy genre. Now if you'll excuse me I have to go read the first book in his other new series, The Radiant King. I told you he was prolific!
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