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Meet the Alexes

Dungeon of Tahilia, Book 1

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Meet the Alexes

By: Burt Wrenlaw
Narrated by: Graham Halstead
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Summary

Welcome! Please, make yourselves at home! Dungeon Rules are posted over there. You break 'em, and Baron Grimes will break your kneecaps. Piss him off badly enough, and he'll cave your head in. Really piss him off, and he'll string up your friends and family in front of you as you bleed out to death.

Just kidding! He'll probably just fine you . . . while knocking you around silly.

Anyhow, beds are ten copper per head per night. Complementary meals are served in the dining hall.

You can get in touch with Merchant Liszviel if you are looking for amenities outside the dungeon. She'll be more than happy to accommodate you if you've got the coin.

Oh, and I know the Dungeon Rules are over there, but I have to say this upfront: please avoid harming, killing, or forcing yourselves upon myself or the other Alexes in full view of other guests. That happens frequently enough to make some guests feel squeamish. At least talk it out with one of us before getting down to whatever floats your boat.

And please disregard any ideas that we Alexes are people or something. We have no souls inside our hollow shells, for we are merely walking piles of meat sculpted by the dungeon to serve as its proxies.

©2021 Burt Wrenlaw (P)2022 Tantor Adventure Epic Epic Fantasy Fantasy Fiction Science Fiction
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A great idea for a completely original slice-of-life dungeon core story, but it's just so boring! Other than the dungeon, after the first couple of chapters the characters just all mixed together in my head and I didn't care about any of them. The politicking was boring. The world was boring. And there's a lot of tedious dialogue that just goes round and round.

Writing quality is good, but not great. Expect many of the usual self-published KU problems: dangling participles, singular-plural mismatches, past tense where past perfect is needed, and so on. It's not terrible, but could be better.

The audiobook narration is solid, but fails to overcome the stagnation of the prose.

I really wanted to like it, but a slice-of-life story has to have extra strong characters and world to account for the lack of an overriding plot, and this one just fails. I got about 40% through it before pulling the plug.

A great idea stagnates into mediocrity

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