The Elemental Dungeon Trilogy: A Complete Dungeon Core Box Set

By: Jonathan Smidt

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

The complete trilogy of Jonathan Smidt's hit 2020 Dungeon Core Series, Elemental Dungeon! This box set is filled with a skeleTON of action, puns, dungeon building, more puns, monster creation, and an iconic cast of characters! Grab your party and dive back into an unforgettable Dungeon Core adventure!

Ryan doesn’t remember much about his life before becoming a 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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Missing dialogue

There are some parts of the book with missing dialogue in it and missing important details

More than worth it! You'll be glad you checked it out!

The story is good, solid, with no glaring issues. I wasn't expecting a really interesting story, based on the fact that all 3 books were packaged together and offered inexpensively. However, I was pleasantly surprised. Both author and audiobook production were very good, with no issues other than that book 3, chapter 82 is messed up. I'm not sure what happened. I re-downloaded the book, as words were missing and there were strange gaps in between sentences. The second download, as well as streaming through my Echo produced the same results. Otherwise, I'd have given 5 stars in all three categories.

I did not listen to this book with anyone in mind but myself, so I won't comment on appropriateness for kids or whatever. There is very little discussed in the nature of relationships and, if there was any language, I ignored it, since it's ubiquitous in most things. I don't recall it here, but I tend to forget those kind of things. I'd recommend this series (and will!) to my friends and family. If you're looking for harems or romance, then wrong series. If you want a well written story that will keep you listening through 3 books, well, this is the correct series. I can only hope you enjoy it as much as I did!

Just what I look for in dungeon core stories...

So damn good... so many are really missing out. Only tiny bit is the repeating, but otherwise, the story was damn good, and entirely worth the time.
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BTW, Steve and Buttercup... perfectly acceptable names...

so funny

I really enjoyed this dungeon core story. it was exciting and funny. narration was amazing

I think I would label this young adult fiction..

So, I listened to it all back to back, and for entertainment value I would say it's all right, actually above average. I enjoyed it enough that I didn't stop in the middle of it, and I've done that a few times.

I would say this is geared more towards young adults due to the style of the writing and what it covers. I could be negative, but I'm not going to, but I think if this was labeled young adult I would have gone into this with more of that mindset and expectation.

Overall a good story, it was a fun premise. I laughed about the AARon when first introduced, but man did, I want to absolutely scream when he became part of a battle scene and every other word was AARon.

I would say the voice acting was pretty good on this overall, though I do have to say the celestial fairy, super annoying. I honestly was kind of hoping she would get killed off so I didn't have to listen to that part anymore. :p