Solo Leveling

by Chugong

Genres: Fantasy, Light Novels
Pages: 327
Series: Solo Leveling (light novel) #2
Rating:

Synopsis:

ARISE! Once dubbed the Weakest Hunter of All Mankind, Jinwoo is now…well, something else entirely. Armed with his mysterious system, he’s currently powerful enough to single-handedly clear dungeons that once would have proven life-threatening. He just has to ready himself to take on the Demon’s Castle-and what better way to do so than finishing a quest? Exclusive new weapons and skills from an assassin-class job may be just what Jinwoo needs… but the system seems to have other plans for him!

As with volume one, volume two of Chugong’s Solo Leveling novel has been adapted pretty closely by the manhwa I’ve already read. There are a few details that I don’t remember popping up, and maybe a bit more detail for side characters’ and their thoughts — I don’t remember Park Heejin having quite so much detail in the manhwa, for example — but mostly the adaptation was very faithful.

Despite the story being so familiar, it’s fun to get more of Jinwoo’s point of view, especially as he starts to really get to grips with being a Player, and figure out things like his job change quest. It’s still such fun to read about him subverting the system a little bit (e.g. by going to the penalty zone for four hours to extend his timer, albeit that’s a bit accidental on his part) — and of course to watch his journey toward being so absolutely OP he could probably rip down a bit of sky and beat someone with it. He’s not there yet here, but he’s gonna get there.

The scene between him and Jinho when Jinho says Jinwoo’s like a big brother and Jinwoo says he’ll consider Jinho a brother then is so cute, too.

As with the first book (and indeed the manhwa), it’s fun light reading.

Rating: 4/5 (“really liked it”)