This book is, in a word, intriguing. It redefines what good and evil are, at least from the perspective of artificial intelligence. I started this book out skeptical of the MC who had so many unfortunate things happen to him that I found it quite unbelievable, but that could just be that I was blessed with a more or less easy high school experience, others may have had it rougher than me. Despite this I kept reading because it is one of the top LitRPGs in the genre and I’m trying to immerse myself more into the genre. I steadily grew more interested and intrigued at the depth this book has, like psychologically, and needing to read between the lines. The concept in this book, which I would call mostly YA, makes me glad because to fully enjoy it, you have to think which is something a lot of young adults lack the capacity to do nowadays. I think books like this could change that. There is some cussing in it, so if you don’t like that you might not like it, but really even the most vanilla movie in today’s world has some cussing in it. There wasn’t sex, which I was glad of, because to me, a lot of times in LitRPG so far, it usually seems forced and awkward. I enjoyed the game mechanics as well, though only relying on one stat will make him very ill prepared in the future. The redundancy of the game mechanics was pretty much non-existent and the set up of the console seems like it could be possible in the future. (At least I hope because current VR makes me sick if I play more than 30 minutes at a time-sadness!) So why not a 5/5? Well I believe there is always room for improvement, plus I guess the norms of society play on my psyche as well as it is harder to get behind a chaotic evil character even though he’s far from evil in the real world, and finally, while the narrator did a good job, I felt like his voice sounded a lot older than the age the book targets. I will be interested to see where things go from here!