Enjoyable urban fantasy novels that suffered somewhat from any individual novel being too brief; most I could read in a sitting. (This is a fairly good problem to have, and much preferable to wearing out the welcome.) Level Grind remedies this by collecting 1-4 of the series into a compendium, which yields a page count that lets the reader really sink in. Also, I love the title, and the geekery that evidences.

I'm unable to provide a review at this time. Unfortunately, I DNFed this book in the first 18%. It just didn't grab my attention. I apologize for any inconvenience.

I was terribly disappointed in this bind-up. I'm all for a good urban fantasy but this story took every cliche in the genre and threw it all into one place. 

One of my biggest issues is that this was a collection of four novellas. Each of the stories moves too quickly to give the characters and their relationships to really develop. A lot of that, I think, comes down to the length of the stories. I'm not usually one for novellas, preferring full-length novels, and these were so short that the characters didn't get the time they needed to grow. Nothing about them really stood out in a way that kept me interested in reading more. I did like the geekiness that filled the stories, at least. 

I wasn't really invested in the world either. Bits and pieces come out throughout the course of all four novellas but it takes those four to really breathe life into it enough that I didn't start getting into the novellas until the last one and by that point I wasn't invested in the characters enough to want to read beyond that. 

These are books to read if you're looking for something light and quick, and don't plan to put too much though into the story beyond the surface. I've read a lot in the genre and this book just didn't cut it in comparison to others, and I couldn't turn off the critical thinking part of my brain long enough to really enjoy this one.