Nonetheless, I’ll keep reading this because I’m immersed in the story anyway and I cannot wait for the comic to reach the later stages of the novel series. Those pictures are what’s going through my head when I read the same fight scenes in the novel, ignoring the lacklustre descriptions. It’s got a better flow, less redundancy and the fights are much better in the comic version as well. I suggest anyone who likes the topic/idea rather read the comic adaptation, which is brilliant. Re: my rant on the first book: the writing style hasn’t improved AT ALL, it’s still terrible and I keep wondering whether an editor ever even looked at this text or if the author just very desperately needed to hit a word count. Book 3 is already on my shelf, ready to read and I have already preordered book 4. I loved the increasing info of the world you get at the end of the book and look forward to how that will be unraveled later. I was so excited to give my friends and husband an overview about what I read so far in the hopes that they will read and discuss with me. I adore reading about the skills that Jinwoo uses in battle (can we see some of these in video games please?). My delight only grew the further on the book went. Several times I laughed out loud, not because it was funny, but because it went a completely different way than expected. Or rather, it took what was the same in so many, and quirked it up a bunch. This book started off where the last one left off and immediately started inching away from all the common tropes I see in anime. This is probably going to be a repeating thing because it annoys me, but again, not a deal breaker, just a nitpick. This is a repeat minor complaint from my last review of the first volume in the same series.

Still continued doing some of that weirdness where some of the sound effects (not always) are written out in “”. + Loving the variety of monsters and beasties that are being battled. Jinwoo is so cynical and untrusting, which he has learned from experience, but still. I’d like to say this isn't actually really common, but it’s certainly not uncommon. Like 90% of them are all for themselves and all working on an angle to their benefit at all times. + There's something kinda appealing about how all the side characters in the book that you meet, are for the most part, pretty darn awful.

Can’t go into details because of spoilers, but there was a divine little twist I didn't see coming. + Loved the quests and outcomes in this book. The events in this book take place immediately after where the last book left off. This is the second book of the ‘Solo Leveling” light novel series.

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