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  • The Guild Core 1: Dragon Bourne

  • A Dungeon Adventure
  • By: TJ Reynolds
  • Narrated by: Steve Campbell
  • Length: 16 hrs and 5 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (57 ratings)
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By: TJ Reynolds
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Summary

Wake a dungeon. Form a guild. Fight to restore the world.

Kai was the least likely young man to ascend. Raised on his uncle’s potato farm, he began his career as an adventurer with empty pockets and little skill. But a foolish attempt to prove his bravery leads Kai to unlock hidden power within himself and acquire a most unlikely ally.

Rhona is a battle-scarred soldier who’s as likely to toss a quip as she is to throw a punch. After setting aside a promising career in the army to pursue the Path of the Bleeding Tiger, she sets out to stop a war and seek atonement for a bloody past.

When Bancroft the Earth Core awakens, he can’t wait to clean up his dungeon and begin building things anew. A recovered item from his past reminds him that more is at stake, however, putting an end to such pleasantries.

Join The Guild Core, a small band of friends determined to restore the world to an age of dragons, heroes, and honor.

The Guild Core is a novel by TJ Reynolds, fantasy LitRPG author of Eternal Online books one to three. The Guild Core was inspired by the Divine Dungeon series, The Wheel of Time, and classic films like The Labyrinth and The Neverending Story.

This story takes place in an epic fantasy world governed by gaming mechanics. It contains light to moderate litRPG, gamelit, cultivation, and dungeon core elements. Features realistic violence, three MC POVs, and more than a few quaint jokes. Language and adult content is appropriate for teen listeners.

©2020 Thomas Reynolds (P)2020 Thomas Reynolds

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Interesting world-building to start this series

This author balances the limits of a dungeon core pretty well in this first book of a new series, providing a way for the dungeon to still be part of the regular adventures through his champion monster, with the author still being able to cut back to the core itself for all the trap building, monster creation, etc that you expect from this genre of litrpg. The author also handles the whole 'chosen one' trope well with respect to the main humanoid character, Kai, while he obviously has some particular gifts, he doesn't feel overpowered with many characters being far tougher than him.

The overall mechanics and magic systems of this book feel well-thought out and the book's world is similarly well-realised, neither of these elements felt like they caused this book to just feel like a book one of a series rather than a book in its own right either.

The range of the narrator was good, particularly the contrast between Bancroft and some of the others, nicely enhancing the story.

Overall, a strong beginning, but doesn't sacrifice itself to setting up the series.

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

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I liked it a lot

I am not very familiar with LitRPG books at all, but I really liked this coming of age, fantasy story. There was good character development and the book was well written. Although quite a long book, it held my interest throughout. It also helped that the author included a short explanation of all the various terms/abbreviations used and main characters at the end of the book. The narrator was excellent.

I was given this book for free of my own choosing and voluntarily left this review.



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Good Start

A dungeon core revival with a young MC fated to meet his destiny this does well with the usual coming of age story as the characters are well thought out and mesh well together as they fight to restore dungeons. Narration was as expected and suited the story and characters, although a bit slow to start as this is the first audible it picked up well and I enjoyed the story and would carry on for the rest of the series.
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Brilliantly Narrated by Steve Campbell

I enjoyed this book, but then narrator brought it to life in a wonderful way, thank you Steve Campbell!!!

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Good start of a new series.

Interesting setup of a litrpg/dungeon core story, characters are well done, only the "bad guys" are maybe too over the top.

My only other issue would be the constant "cliffhanger switches" between the main characters.

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Great suprise

Liked it a lot! Cant wait to see where the series is gong from here.

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slow to start but worth the effort

Great storey an hour in but very slow to begin 100% worth reading through looking to start Book 2

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Good story bad VA

The story is pretty good, nothing spectacular but I'll likely grab the next in the series. My main problem is the reader, he will pronounce a word correctly then in the next sentence pronounce it totally different then swap back and forth between the correct and incorrect pronunciation he does this regularly and it's really annoying. I also dislike his performance of the female voices they're a little grating.

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An excellent start to a trilogy

I thoroughly enjoyed listening to this book, only made better by the great narration. The three main characters were all likable and endearing and I eagerly anticipated there eventually meeting.

The world building was also great and the magic/leveling system was coherent. I am looking forward to the next book in the series.

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Pretty good

I like the book and will continue the series, but it doesn't get me excited to think how the story will progress, just a pretty good listen. Core system made me feel like I was listening to the cradle series tbh, but it's not so similar. There are fewer LitRPG elements with the characters than I wanted. It's cradle meets dungeon core with dragons, pretty good just not 5/5 atm, the story has potential to make it truly epic. The dungeon's persona is perfect though.

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