This is a fantastic sci-fi with heart and characters dealing with moral dilemmas. The worldbuilding and technology is imaginative and complex, and at the same time feeling plausible. I could clearly picture everything and felt a part of the story. The overall feeling of the book, with the technology combined with a religion factor sort of reminded me of Dune, while being wholly its own story and world. I could feel other sci-fi influences, but it retains a level of uniqueness that made me not want to put this book down, I always needed to read at least one more chapter! The cast of characters was well balanced, and the multiple POVs were handled superbly, every time I started to wonder what was going on with a particular character, it would switch to that POV within a few pages. There were fantastic breadcrumbs which were so great when they were paid off, I love when I discover something at the same time or slightly before a character, it's like an exciting morsel I delight in finding. I can also feel there are more breadcrumbs that are laid out for the next books, but they aren't quite so big that they were needed to be paid off in this book. I find that's a really difficult balance to achieve. It's a thoroughly entertaining read and am already started on Book 2 of the series. 

My aunt says: never consider yourself lucky, rather think of yourself as blessed. Well, I guess I was blessed to have had the chance to pick up this book. It totes moral opinions without getting saccharine. Like the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the message underlies the story without overwhelming it. It is so refreshing to read something that doesn’t glorify fringe ideas while still maintaining an openness to change. Violence is frowned upon, but the characters are no push-overs.
The story features bright young people who are—well, young. They make mistakes because of overenthusiasm, jealousy, fear, and the universal feeling of being “different”—they are oblivious to the “real” world they live in until champions of both good and evil try to involve them in their individual agendas. The story unfolds as these young people develop under the guidance (or pressure) from the adults who surround them.
The story reads on several levels which is excellent for evolving readers. I was held to the very last sentence and was disappointed when it ended.

Kallen Samuels' Leviticus: Dictates of the Servators, Book 1 is a well-crafted fantasy and sci-fi story set in an antediluvian time. New hi-tech inventions have emerged, and more are in the works. The story begins when Leviticus Radix, Nico Callan, Kade Brixton, and Kayla Vantos are graduate students at the prestigious Denmount Court of Learning. Leviticus, the principal character, is a brilliant and gifted computational engineering student with an extraordinary analytical mind, who immediately senses anything unfamiliar in a familiar pattern. Nico is Leviticus' best friend and a business major. Kade is an excellent computer engineering student and is a team member of an exciting new hi-tech project developed by Leviticus. Kayla is a surveillance major. The four students are in their last year at the Court when, dramatically and unexpectedly, their lives are disrupted. Two ancient organizations --the Servators and the Breachers -- both see Leviticus' new project as a potentially powerful invention. The pace, the drama, and the tension rise considerably as the four young people each find themselves in challenging and often perilous situations, very different from their student days.I particularly liked Kallen Samuels' Leviticus for its remarkable characters, their transformative journeys, and the complexity of the world in which they live. I loved the backstory of the city of Denmount, the Court of Learning itself, its history, and other very intriguing details which give the overall story considerable depth and complexity. I think giving each of the four characters their own space in the story made their subsequent interactions with each other more realistic. Part of the title of this novel refers to the Servators. I liked the approach of revealing more about the Servators through specific characters and situations. The Servators are a force for good, and I felt that their ethics and tenets - of humility, forgiveness, redemption, and hope - are conveyed realistically through the challenges and difficulties faced by the characters. The Breachers, on the other hand, are a destructive force. I think the story's villains are compelling, and their greed for power and wealth comes through in a powerful and thought-provoking way. I enjoyed reading Leviticus very much with its extraordinary characters and a compelling, multilayered storyline of good vs. evil.