Review Detail of Mochaeri in Solo Leveling(Only I Level Up)

Where to start... So. This novel is incredible and let me tell you the reasons as to why that is. First off, the main character. He is OP but his character isn’t written in a deplorable or cringy matter. Rather his development is well thought out and it’s pretty neat. We then have the side characters, and while they don’t have as much screentime as Seong Jin-woo or some of the other side characters, they all have their own unique quirks which makes reading them even more enjoyble. Then we have the world-building and plot development. The setting goes around the entire world (Earth, mainly US and China, S. Korea, Japan), but it always goes back to South Korea. While this may seem obvious for some, I have read other novels where the setting always seems to be someplace new, and that caused some trouble for me as a reader because there would a reference to someplace 100 chapters ago that I had no recollection of. The plot is amazing. By plot I mean the novel’s content and story not the writing quality or anything of that matter. The beginning with Seong Jin-Woo having a game-like display helping him become stronger isn’t a new plot device, but that was fine. And as the story progressed, I became enraptured by the fight scenes, the interactions between the characters, and SJW’s personality. Because I read this novel after reading the manhwa, the beginning part of the novel wasn’t as eye-catching as the parts I hadn’t seen in the manwha, yet they were still pretty enthralling. Up to a certain point in the novel things were going in ways that I expected, albeit with more deaths than I had foreseen. But then plot twist after plot twist and things just blew my expectations through the roof, and it. Was. Splendid. There were also a colection of short-stories at the end which was magnificent, but then the novel ended in a way that made me crave more 🥲 *sigh*. So all in all, this novel is a definite worth-while read, and I am so glad that the manhwa is out.