The premise behind The Leveller is what pulled me in towards this book. After reading about it, it made me instantly think of one of my favorites animes: Sword Art Online. Now I knew that it had the whole being stuck in the game world with no way to get out, and the girl who will kick butt and fight the bad guys to get out but it was totally different that what I had first expected. 
 I thought it was going to be sort of like Runescape and SAO where everyone would log in to the same game and have different customizable avatars, but alas no, they each can make their own world and do whatever they want with it. While that was a disappointment to read about, I understood that if the author had made it like SAO and Aincrad, I'm pretty sure she would have had some copyright infringement or be dubbed as plagiarizing if she went in that direction. (view spoiler)[That whole thing about "Let me see the real you" totally reminded me of when the players in SAO received that mirror that showed their true selves/how they really looked. (hide spoiler)] 
 The romance, what romance? It felt like it was just there, all of a sudden, with no explanation of them falling for each other, other than Mama Betti's "he likes pretty things so of course he will like you" and they go from strangers to already having "feelings" for each other in the same day. Hell, they even kiss like on the 3rd day they met! To me, it was too rushed and felt sort of forced at times, and it was more like the author wanted to have romance in the book but didn't know how to execute it properly.. 
 The ending also got to me. Here I was thinking that it was going to be a standalone but in actuality it had a cliffhanger ending. Like, it's so bad, it's just ends out of nowhere. Just when things are getting ready to be resolved or at least explained to Diego Salvador and other people, the author just ends the action midway! I guess it's the perfect way to keep the readers hooked and wanting more, thus leaving the market open for more books in the future, but c'mon! You don't have to resort to 
 Apart from all that, it was a nice story that had me wondering what was going to happen next, and who exactly trapped Wyn in the MEEP world and why. Of course once it was all revealed, I found myself saying "That's it?" but maybe in the next book the author will reveal more stuff