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Dungeon Born

Dakota Krout

3.92 AVERAGE

medium-paced
adventurous dark funny lighthearted mysterious tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I'm not sure who to root for

I like Cal and Dani, and they're exploits are hilarious. It's interesting to watch Cal grow. However, I also like Dale. With the results of the last battle, which blew my mind, I am very eager to see what happens next. I also look forward to when Cal meets the individuals in the epilogue.

My ten year old found and read these books and loves them, but I would not have let him read them until he was older if I had read them first. There are some very inappropriate things in these books for an elementary school student to read. I think these are better for at least 8th grade or older because of some of the content.

The book has some interesting things in it like a world where an adventurers' guild is something difficult to get into but gives huge rewards like extended life. Or where a dungeon core is sentient and can analyze things at a molecular level and reproduce them from the ambient magic.

So yeah, cool ideas, but only an alright book. It was worth my time as kind of a background noise that I didn't have to think too much about. Wish fulfillment and escapism I suppose. There are better examples of everything in this book, but if it sounds good to you, I think it is worth picking up. I hope the second book follows the sentient dungeon core Cal more though.

this was a fun book. Tickled the same spots that Overlord and Gate anime did.

I like the originality of having the consciousness of the dungeon being a main character. Seeing things from the dungeon's point of view makes for interesting listening. The magic system is also kind of intriguing to me.
adventurous medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Much fun.