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  • The Crafter's Dilemma: A Dungeon Core Novel

  • Dungeon Crafting, Book 3
  • By: Jonathan Brooks
  • Narrated by: Louise Cooksey
  • Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (48 ratings)

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The Crafter's Dilemma: A Dungeon Core Novel

By: Jonathan Brooks
Narrated by: Louise Cooksey
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Summary

After narrowly surviving an invasion of her dungeon by some seriously dangerous Elves, Sandra needs to recover from having all of her defending constructs destroyed in the process. With the bulk of her forces lost while shattering the Core of a Reptile Classification dungeon, the merchant-turned-Dungeon Core is feeling a little vulnerable.  

Luckily, she has Violet, a Gnome Apprentice Enchanter, to help her get things back to normal. With Felbar, another Gnome that has decades of experience culling Dungeon Monsters, and Echo, an Elf that mistakenly got tangled up with Sandra and her dungeon, now awake from their Visitor Bond-induced comas, she can finally work on improving her relationship with the Gnomes and Elves by providing them with much-needed supplies.  

Unfortunately, during her time of recovery and looking into crafting new things with her recent access to Enchanting, she neglected to keep an eye on the dungeons around her Area of Influence. With the Gnomes no longer there to cull the Undead Classification dungeon near their destroyed village, Sandra scrambles to get ahead of its rapid expansion – and potential threat to the Dwarves to the north. 

But even if she manages to destroy the Undead Classification Core, should she stop there? Now that is quite the dilemma….

This Dungeon Core story contains LitRPG/GameLit elements such as statistics and leveling and a heavy crafting emphasis. No profanity and no harems. 

©2020 Jonathan L Brooks (P)2020 Jonathan L Brooks

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Steady escalation and expansion

This instalment of the series was very much about escalating things, the level of threat that the dungeon Sandra was facing increases significantly, both from the current threat of an aggressive dungeon, from the consequences of her and others destroying dungeons and also from the other races who are not all so ready to accept a benign dungeon.

While it is quite common for the main characters in this genre to be overpowered or simply able to out-think rivals, it was interesting to see the author portraying a rival dungeon as being ahead of Sandra a lot of the time with better or more effective strategies, whether this will be the usual in subsequent books or is an early learning experience for her, we will have to wait and see. On a similar note, the author has not gone out of his way to make things too easy for the dungeon's larger missions, language barriers are still in place hampering efforts to unite the various races, none of whom are overly keen on her plans either.

The narration of this book worked well to enhance the story with the tone being well suited to the dungeon core and being suitably distinctive for the rest of the supporting cast too.

Overall, another strong instalment in this series and I look forward to the subsequent ones.

[Note - I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.]

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Good next part of the story

I liked this story, it follows the formula from the first two books.
While I do enjoy the narrator, her attempt to do male voices is pretty bad.
I'm looking forward to the next book.

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another great book

if you love dungeon cores, crafting and monster. you will enjoy this book.

it really build on the last two so make sure you have read them first.

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It just gets better and better

Finished book 2 and jumped straight into this without hesitation ! Story is making good progression and am keen to follow this till the end ! Narrator is brilliant, right tone and speed and voices for the different characters ! Really hope book 4 isn’t too far away !

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Another okay entry

It's not great but it's not bad though, there is some seriously missed potential in this series.

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