Dungeon Born

This is a weird one in the sense that it's really bad, but I didn't hate it.

For one, this book tries it's best to fulfil the challenge "add an adverb for every verb". Which is aggravated by the other challenge - to add a "say" synonym for every line of dialog. This naturally leads to some of them being nonsensical. But there are other dumb things. [spoiler]I was most annoyed when the protagonist being rude to someone and then doubling down on that was described and treated as "presenting a good argument". A close runner up was the one where the book says something like "learning to use a weapon takes a long time" and immediately continues to manage every kind of leveling for our protagonists in a really short span of time.[/spoiler]

The plot is let's take videogame mechanics and put them as the basis of a fantasy setting. In a pretty straightforward way. And that works surprisingly well.

I guess the reason I kept listening to the end is that I wondered how will our two protagonists being on somewhat opposite sides be resolved at the end of the book. Decently.