Bone Dungeon

Elemental Dungeon, Book 1

By: Jonathan Smidt, Portal Books

Narrated by: Will M. Watt, Annie Ellicott, Jeff Hays, Laurie Catherine Winkel

Ryan doesn’t remember much about his life before becoming dungeon core. Only that he had a bit of a disagreement with the church - something to do with a beheading?

Now reborn, Ryan begins to arm his darkness dungeon with devious traps, bestial zombies, and ill-named skeletal creations, without doing anything too evil. Well, mostly. Some adventurers just deserve a stalactite to the head.

But Ryan quickly learns being a darkness dungeon isn’t all loot and bone puns. With a necromancer on the rise and the Adventurer’s Guild watching his every move, he must prove that not all darkness dungeons are malevolent...even if they do have a few skeletons in their caverns.

Sadly, all of these issues keep distracting him from his own guilty pleasure, skeletal fight club. But don’t tell his fairy about that.

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great book. terrible fairy.

awesome story the only thing that was bad was the dungeon fairy and the stupid music. the fairy is every negative female trope rolled in one useless package. i think the music it's meant to set the mood, but it's more jarring and silly than anything. my last issue with the book is he breaks the first 2 rules of fight club. :)

Fun dungeon core novel by emerging author

A few predictable trends that might not have been necessary but quickly picked up and kept me entertained the whole while. Towards the end some more original aspects of litrpg and dungeon core novels came out. Unique element of affinity and a potentially cool new class type for book two. Will be awaiting book 2!

Bargain brand dungeon born

Title says it all. I saw Jeff Hays and thought it would be a winner. Nope. The MC is too annoying and childish. I couldn’t even finish.

I’m thirsty for more!

Jonathan Smidt’s first installment starts off in an unexpected way for our protagonist but quickly sets the framework for the story. You won’t have to wait long for some witty comments and some action which is always a plus. The cast of voice actors also do a great job portraying their roles and it was nice to hear a diverse yet familiar set of voices (Annie Ellicott & Jeff Hays) .

The general theme here is that we get to witness a dungeon wrestle with its conscience while also observing humans place their’s aside, putting a spin on the usual trope we see these days.

I was happy to get a chance to binge this first book and my review is all thumbs up, including the bony ones.

Can’t wait for more skeletal fight club!

For transparency I was gifted this audiobook by the author however my review of the story wasn’t impacted by this.

fun read except for one character

The semi incompetent fairy annoyed me but other than that it was pretty good thanks for the good read