Dan Sugralinov grew up in a small working-class town on the Russian border with Kazakhstan. It’s a miracle he survived his childhood games of hide-and-seek in the surrounding building sites complete with perilous rebar structures and flooded foundation pits.
Ever since he learned to read at the age of five, he couldn’t put a book down. Reluctant to earn himself the name of a conceited nerd, he concentrated on playing soccer which allowed him to become friends with the town’s toughest kids.
In 1995, he graduated with honors, entering the St Petersburg Academy of Engineering and Economics where he studied business creation. He must have done something right because in the years that followed, he first worked on TV and radio just to get the taste of it, then opened his first successful business followed by several more. In between, he started writing and playing video games, winning the St Petersburg Mortal Kombat championship and becoming runner-up for Starcraft and Warcraft 3. He is a 14-times champion in Quake, Quake 2 and Quake 3 as well as the world’s ex-#1 in the World of Warcraft.
In 2004, he wrote his first motivational novella The Bricks which to date has garnered him over 3,000,000 readers online alone.
In 2014, Russia’s leading publishers of business literature Mann, Ivanov & Ferber published a revised and extended edition of his book, The Bricks 2.0.
In 2015, Dan discovered the existence of LitRPG. He devoured everything that had been written in that genre until he finally decided he too could write similar books.
In summer 2017, he published his first book in the subgenre of realRPG: Level Up.
Dan Sugralinov is a consummate gamer, a multiple MMORPG champion and the world’s ex-#1 in the World of Warcraft. He is also a successful businessman and author of books on marketing and business organization. His first LitRPG series Level Up took Russia by storm in 2017. Its English translation is about to be released on Amazon.
Good read, but the first 100pages is a recap and it ends in a cliffhanger. I thought this was the final book in the series which is why i was willing to pony up 7$ for the kindle version. If they split the last novel and padded it with fluff it’s kind of a rip off.
Will wait until it goes on kindle unlimited next time.
It's an absolute mess the book is slow moving and is so filled with filler and slows down the story progression. So much time wasted on recap and interlude and overly explained monologues that take up so much of the book replacing real story content. Sorry if I repeat myself as I plan on reviewing the series as a whole in book 1
I've enjoyed this series. I'm not a fan of the long long synopsis at the start of each book but the actual story is good. Right up to the last book costing 7.99. Guess ill never know how it ends.
It feels that there is supposed to be another book after this one. A few more, maybe, but definitely at least one more based on how this book ends. It feels so unfinished.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.