A good beginning, and an interesting sci-fi world that is left unused to focus on just playing a MMORPG. Maybe the author comes back to the exciting stuff (addiction to advancement, difference between a simulant and a conscious person, other sci-fi elements). My only misgiving to the first book is a creepy attitude toward women, but in the first book there are mostly men, so it isn't too bad to read. The second book I won't review because I dropped it. The story turned into a work where everything revolves around the main character.