Review: Welcome to Probet: How to Avoid Death on a Daily Basis by V. Moody

Welcome to Probet: How to Avoid Death on a Daily Basis by V. Moody

Here’s a twist on the glut of books that have people from our world get stuck in a game environment where they have to advance levels so they don’t get killed. There are no levels or classes in V. Moody’s new series. There are no special skills magically imparted into people’s brains. There’s only plenty of monsters—each capable of killing people—and a world that thinks this is normal and needs help cleaning out the deadly beasts.

 

To make matters even more difficult, Moody’s heroes aren’t heroes. They aren’t jocks. They aren’t special forces soldiers with useful training for surviving in this new world. They aren’t even successful geeks—they’re the unsuccessful outcasts with no real athletic ability who also lack (as most of us would) a mindset that would help them survive in this environment.

 

Yet if they can’t adapt they will be killed—and therein lies the key to a very engaging adventure. For all the gamers out there who have wondered how they would do if they entered their fantasy world, this book gives you a much more realistic look than you ever imagined—and still manages to be quite entertaining.