Solo Leveling (Light Novel) - Review
Link to the author's (H. Chu-Gong) personal website
Genre: Fantasy
Publication Type: Webnovel
Tags:
- Average Age of Main Characters (26)
- Length (9 / 10)
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Blurb: 10 years ago, after “the Gate” that connected the real world with the monster world opened, some of the ordinary, everyday people received the power to hunt monsters within the Gate. They are known as "Hunters". However, not all Hunters are powerful. My name is Sung Jin-Woo, an E-rank Hunter. I'm someone who has to risk his life in the lowliest of dungeons, the "World's Weakest". Having no skills whatsoever to display, I barely earned the required money by fighting in low-leveled dungeons… at least until I found a hidden dungeon with the hardest difficulty within the D-rank dungeons! In the end, as I was accepting death, I suddenly received a strange power, a quest log that only I could see, a secret to leveling up that only I know about! If I trained in accordance with my quests and hunted monsters, my level would rise. Changing from the weakest Hunter to the strongest S-rank Hunter!
Review: Go read the webtoon version of this book! I found the light novel worse in every way compared to the illustrated version. I'm unsure if the available translations are official, but I found them hard to read. The story also, in my opinion, got worse as the scale of the book kept getting larger. The format and illustrations of the webtoon version are gorgeous though, and the format works perfectly for the story, so once again, go read that!