- Author: David Kuklis
- ISBN: 9781595719942
- Publisher: Word Association Publishers
- Genre: Fantasy
- Pages: 231
I received this book from the publisher through Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
I thought this would be the perfect humorous Fantasy novel and I would fly through it within a couple of hours and rave about it on social media. It would have been that kind of book if it weren’t for the majority of it being horribly written dialogue. I’m not talking silly one-liners. It has plenty of those, but I was expecting that with Escape from Nether World. No, I’m talking about the kind of dialogue that doesn’t have any slang or natural contractions. The characters spoke like robots.
The other issue I had with this book was that after the characters find themselves in Nether World, the story plays out like the very beginning of any video game, but nothing ever seemed to get any more difficult for them than that. Everything up until I gave up on the book (at around 50 pages) happened too easily. I just couldn’t take any more of what seemed to be an entire story of Level One, “here’s how you play the game” training mode events.