The Reluctant Dungeon
Monster Haven, Book 1
Failed to add items
Add to basket failed.
Add to Wish List failed.
Remove from Wish List failed.
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Get 30 days of Standard free
The Reluctant Dungeon
Buy Now for $14.92
-
Narrated by:
-
Judy Alice Lee
-
By:
-
J.D. Astra
Transforming into a monstrous dungeon couldn’t be all that bad, right?
Dolli had a very hands-off approach to ruling her once booming village. She preferred to use her alchemical skills to brew a nice cup of tea and keep whiny petitioners off her lawn with Wendigo repellant. But she pays the price for her apathy when her neglected village transforms into a Dungeon, making it fair game for any Hero with a lust for loot.
It doesn't take long for one such Hero from Dolli’s dark past, Keegan Plague Ender, to arrive with his sword ready to be bloodied. The villagers are evolving into powerful Dungeon denizens who can respawn if they're killed—or they could if a mated pair of wyverns hadn't turned the seat of the dungeon core into a brood nest. Now, with one swipe of the Hero's blade, the former townsfolk could be lost to the Lifestream forever.
Despite her curmudgeonly nature, Dolli can't let that happen. Can she rebuild the confidence of her people to roust the wyverns and reinstate respawns? Even if she can, will the young Dungeon hold out against the storm of raiding Heroes?
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
©2022 Shadow Alley Press Inc (P)2022 Audible, Inc.Continue the series
I think this is the first book that I've read by this author, but I understand from the blurb that he or she has a number of other popular LitRPG series, so it's not new to the genre. I found it a little strange, then, that I spent quite a bit of this book wondering whether I'd missed something. I even double checked that this was the first book in the series, and consulted the blurb to confirm that this was not a continuation from a different series. It just sort of starts halfway through something and has characters that it seems we're supposed to know about from somewhere already. I quite like books that gradually introduced the world and details to slowly resolve mystery -- quite common for the genre -- but I don't think it was handled very well in this case.
Writing quality is okay to moderately good, with a number of grammatical errors evident in the audiobook narration, some slightly hackneyed and not altogether convincing dialogue, and the number of inconsistencies both big and small. There's a moderate amount of "gamelit stat stuff", which is not that easy to skip over in the audiobook format.
Audiobook production is good although there were a few very minor inconsistencies in the characterization / dialogue.
Overall it's pretty good and I like the premise, but even after completion of this first book I'm still a bit confused.
A good idea, but a bit confusing and inconsistent
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
A bit of fun
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Very good, is there a sequel?
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
the bad guys are bad video game players?
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.