Interesting take on a dungeon core book

The typical dungeon core happens on a planet BUT this book takes that idea one step further. This book is about a dunegon core in space! It brings both fantasy, litrpg and sci-fi together seemelessy!

This book is fun and engaging and the MC makes some interesting decisions. Its always a bonus when the MC has a brain! I really enjoyed this take of a dungeon core book and look forward to book 2!

Final note the narrator did a fantastic job with his character voices, he really brings the story alive!

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cool concept marred by poor writing

I enjoy and I am familiar with the LitRPG genre and Dungeon core adventures but I am afraid I could not enjoy this book.

The writing is very simple (which is fine on its own) but so are the characters and their motivations. The characters hardly wonder what is going on, why they are doing what they are doing. The MC is supposed to be an honorable and moral space captain, is attacked by an unknown (alien?!) enemy but has no inclination to find out what happened to his crew, his fleet, his navy or even just any human beings.

The author often writes lines where the characters appear to 'reason' as if they were a 10 year old.
Example from chapter 8: 'The main character thought this made sense.' 'This makes sense' said the MC.

The author seems so enthralled by his idea of what a dungeon core is, that he has forgotten to build a world around it.
This enthrallment might be the reason the author seems to list the 'stats' of the dungeon after every small bit of progression.
'The MC found scrap! better list off all lvls, mobs, health, weapons of every item in the dungeon!'

The entire first three hours of the book feel like an mandatory unskipable tutorial cutscene in a dungeon keeper video game,
while the reader/listener is just waiting for something to happen. Then just as the MC is betrayed you hope this will propel the story into some kind of new direction, but NOPE, nothing even happens to the betrayer.

I just kept wanting the MC to explore, wonder about something, think about its situation or even display any real emotion.
The writing is not up to the task.

The narration is not great, but not what holds this title back.

I kind of want a refund of my credit point for this :\

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Absolutely awful.

Within 2 minutes I junked this for a refund. Generic, amateur writing and the worst narration I have heard on Audible - a disgrace.

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Surprisingly Addictive

Well I love my Sci Fi space opera’s. This is one to enjoy. The plot is uniquely fun, and very enjoyable. It feels open enough to get a good 7 books after. Let’s hope so. 😊

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Good entry for the series

I should preface this by saying it was a gifted book from the narrator however the opinions are my own. Also possible spoilers.

I really enjoyed the book itself. It's a different take on the fantasy races as well as another LITRPG book that I can zone out to as I work. It's not to wordy and very easy to follow. If you enjoyed The Gam3 or System Apocalypse then chances are you will enjoy this.

For the narration I have super high standards and I think Jack Voraces does a good job. No one is going to be RC Bray however he is not boring and monotone like many audiobook narrators and I would check out both more of this series as well as anything else he does.

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A really good start to an epic story

I absolutely love the narration by Jack Voraces.
Also the story was something I've never seen before. Not even close.
Very unique and therefore very entertaining. Only let down for me is that it is very America focused (his choices on ship designs for example).

A Good Introduction to LitRPG

I actually really enjoyed this one.

This book starts off a little slow for my liking and doesn’t find its pace until later in the book but if you hear with it, you’re taken on a journey that unfolds and becomes is enjoyable to be on. This is my first LitRPG and one I did enjoy.

In some ways I found the stats readings interesting but also a little repetitive but thankfully they don’t happen too much. The story itself finds its groove and becomes captivating, and I really enjoyed the authors use of factual history in this book as inspiration for names. I thought the addition of that at the end really rounded it off nicely.

The narration was good, characters were given their own voices and personalities throughout and I enjoyed the performance overall.

I would recommend giving this a shot!

a good beginning

This is and interesting story with a different take on the genera. the narration while not in a style I usually choose fits the book well and I would happily listen to more from either the author or narrator.

I would happily suggest anyone who is interested in the genera give it a go

Strategic game review?

As the story passed by it turned out to be a story, your annoying friend would tell about his progress in Dungeons and Dragons.
Not the fast way you would share with your other friends, it's the nerdy, painstaking and 'too much details' way, where you kinda loose track with the story, just to, occasionally be drawn back to listen to him, because some of the events he is describing is actually interesting.
But mostly he's just blabbering about the way he upgrades his character by researching this and that, and sometimes even by using a cheat code.
You really gotta be a HUGE fan of D&D, if not, don't start to listen.
I never played D&D but I could recognize the slow progress for our main character in the story, to be very similar to the slow progress you gain in other strategic games, to first gather resources, then use them to research progress in the lab.
Only in the end of this book, in the credits, you will learn the motivation for the author, why he finds it amusing to mix Dungeons and Dragons with scifi.
It's unnatural and shouldn't have been done. It's like putting nutella on your steak. Leaves you with a bad taste of wasting a good steak and a good portion of nutella.
I'm outa here!

Didn’t return it but..

Was tempted to return. It’s almost as watching commentary of rpg game. Character development and story arc are not up to the potential. End was bit more interesting, but I will not buy the sequel:(