@YoungAuthor scoured the Wattpad Universes for pieces of Cyberpunk SciFi and what she found was the work of fellow author, @DanDeBono. Factual Illusions is a full length novel of sixteen chapters and a sequel. Find out what she thought, below.

A Brief Summary

Now, I don't really like coming up with summaries for books since they're not mine and I have no idea how to describe them as I would since the story isn't rolling around in my brain like one of Khan's ear-worms and I don't really know how I'm going to summarize this but I suppose I should try it.

A group of scientists from an ultra-realistic gaming company called Virtuallusion find the ability to travel between shadow earths and beyond that.

It sounds incredibly like the original summary but there is really no other way to describe it. The book's summary truly is good in and of itself but we'll get to that later.

What I Liked

One doesn't see many Sci-Fi/Horror books on Wattpad and this story was truly refreshing both in narrative and story. Though the plot seems rather similar to some book I've stumbled upon (honestly I don't remember the title) but it still seems fresh and original. 

After the summary, one must actually read the first chapter to deem it worthy of one's time and the most important factor of the first chapter is the first two sentences. The first sentence hooked me in but, most importantly, the second sentence kept me going, making me want to know more about what was happening.

It had a darkly humorous narrative that's very refreshing when re-reading it (which I did because I saw more good things than bad).

Everything seems realistic and it seems like a re-telling of events that actually have happened. It's written to almost-perfection which is incredibly rare to find in a Science-Fiction novel about games.

Even the thoughts were realistic and I found myself imagining Dave as a real person and what his personality was like in the real world. It gives the story a nice, clean narration that I find hard to not enjoy when reading.

It was very descriptive but leaving enough to the reader's imagination.

Areas of Improvement

There were very few grammar errors (only ones I really looked for) but, otherwise, it would do with little editing.

The sentences are sometimes long and it's a little hard to read when there's a big chunk of text on page followed by another chunk of text. It makes it hard for you to do something else and then come back to the story to remember which part of the chapter you were on and which line of words you stopped at. 

It was a little confusing and I found myself trying to stop somewhere, get up, do something, and then figure out where I left off.

What I Thought 

What I thought of it overall?

Well, it was probably the best piece of un-published Science-Fiction I have read this month and it certainly has something going for it. It sounds very professional and if I didn't know any better, I would say that it was a published work and wouldn't be surprised to see it (if and when it gets more attention) getting published.

All you have to do is edit it and it'll be even better

Check out @DanDeBono’s Factual Illusions, here:

http://www.wattpad.com/story/1798875-factual-illusions-novel