Dungeon Born

, #1

paperback, 401 pages

Published May 22, 2019 by Mountaindale Press.

ISBN:
978-1-950914-05-0
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reviewed Dungeon Born by Dakota Krout (The Divine Dungeon, #1)

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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 …

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