The over-emoted narration of the audiobook is often beyond annoying with the first few hours of dialogue between the dungeon and the wisp being quite painful. Don't forget that people who return the book on Audible don't get to post a review. My advice to you is that you should go out of your way to look at some of the lower rated comments on Amazon as well as the good ones to allow yourself to form a balanced opinion. This makes me question the many 5 stars ratings of this book on Amazon and Audible. Even very popular, best selling works by talented authors don't garner such ratings.

The book itself is fun at times but the majority is mediocre at best and sometimes it is just downright poorly written. This review serves as a word of warning to anyone interested in this book that you should put some extra effort into your screening process before deciding to pick it up. Why are there so many dungeons around just sitting there waiting for a party of adventures to come and plunder them? How did they get there and where did the monsters come from? What do those monsters in each room do all day long when the dungeon is not being raided? How can a rat drop a helmet twice its size as loot after it is killed? Well this book attempts to explain all of that and while a tongue in cheek book about the illogic of fantasy RPG video games may sound like fun, let me tell you why you might want to avoid this one.

To anyone who enjoys fantasy RPG games, including old school paper Dungeons & Dragons, the premise of this book is an interesting one. Unfortunately for adventurers, the only way for him to achieve his goal is to eat anyone that enters his depths. When a threat he doesn't fully comprehend bares its many teeth, Cal is determined to survive the attempt on his life. With the help of an energetic friend, Cal grows a dungeon around himself to bring in new sources of power.

He is a Dungeon Core, a soul forced against his will into a magical stone.

Questions plague those entering this particular place of power: Where do the 'rewards' of weapons, armor, and heavy gold coins come from? Why is a fluffy bunny charging at me? For abyss-sake, why are there so many monsters?Ĭal has all of the answers to these age-old questions for a very simple reason. The only thing keeping the process from being easy is the Beasts that inhabit these places. Their path to ascendance through cultivation.Ĭonquering dungeons and using them to grow has long been the most efficient way to become a powerful adventurer.

Dungeon born dakota krout