Descend: The Complete Series

Descend, Books 1-5

De: David Burke

Narrado por: Daniel Wisniewski, Rebecca Woods

Contains all five books in the Descend series.

First Steps, book one:

Boredom was killing Jay, not in a dramatic way, but in the life of stifled potential way.

He wanted more out of life. Then, without any warning, he found himself part of an experiment with not even so much as the courtesy of a "how do you do? ".

It wasn't really all bad, though. The fit, busty babes outnumbered him 30 to one. Now, Jay has to fight to survive. He has to conquer the dungeon or die. On top of that, he has to juggle a bunch of gorgeous women who are all stuck in the same life-or-death fight as him. If ever there was a time for bonding...

But most confusing of all are the messages in his dreams. Messages that seem to be coming from himself.

Coming Together, book two:

One dungeon floor down, but how many more to go?

Jay and company have survived the initial stages of the experiment. They have had to overcome everything from their dinner trying to eat them to murderous psychopaths trying to carve out a private fiefdom. Worse, they aren't even aware of the impact the dissent among the aliens running this experiment is having on them.

Now, all the survivors seem to want a piece of Jay, which when they are a bunch of hot girls, doesn't seem entirely bad. He just has to sort out who is trying to manipulate him and who wants to be on Team Jay—all the while, finding a way for humanity to survive.

Going Deeper, book three:

Jay has gotten his cluster to come together. But new challenges always appear.

Most frustrating is an old crush from Earth joins them and throws questions into all of Jay's relationships. One truth remains. Their only hope is to grow stronger. To do that, they have to descend deeper into the dungeon. At the same time, Jay has to decide how he feels about the women in his life.

Bursting Out, book four:

The dungeon has become too small to contain their power.

Jay and the others are aware of the fact that they are on a ship the size of the moon. More than that, they know they are the last survivors of Earth. They have to round up the rest of the clusters, build their power further, and burst out of this prison.

Follow Jay as he learns to embrace the power he has but, more importantly, the power of fusion, where the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

Seeing Stars, book five:

Sometimes, before you can rise up, you must descend first.

They have beaten the dungeon. Now they are launched out into a cold universe. The remnants of humanity need to find a new home. They will meet alien races. Some will be allies. Some will need to be killed.

Nothing worth doing is ever easy, but Jay has accepted his place and will take charge of their destiny.

©2020, 2021 David Burke (P)2025 Podium Audio

After book 1 or maybe it was 2 half the chapters became stat sheets, monotonous procreation scenes, or upgrade reports.. lame…

It started off pretty well but after book 3 it just became 75% stat upgrading and doing research with no direct benefit to the story line. The story line kind of ended after book 2 and the last 3 were the characters just cheating their way out of the ending.

When i listen to 5 books worth of content i want to hear a good story! Not 10 chapters of nonsense and basic sex scenes..

good start. interesting premise. but gets progressively worse

I liked the start. it was an interesting spin on the dungeon trope. the characters were well written. then it went down hill from there. with the expansion of the harem all character building goes out the window. the initial struggle fades away to increasingly reckless gimmicks that have zero negative consequences. then by the time the enemy actually appears, which will take forever and be very brief, it becomes a one sided OP beat down by the Mc. the explicit scenes are well done but get bogged down with the rest of the story. a potential good stroy that gets crushed under the weight of its own power fantasy/harem trope.

what an awesome unique story!

this large book had everything you could ask, perfect mix of sci-fi and a proper dungeon delving book. if you want the proper mix of story and spice, this is the series for you!

MC problems

I HATE the MC. Keep in mind this is a men's fantasy book, Conan the barbarian he is not. Ok this isnt a spoiler because it comes up almost immediately, the MC's mother and sister are dead and he claims not to have many if any female influences. That being said, what I dont want in a men's fantasy is for him to seem like he's been beaten down emotionally and psychologically by a feminist. His instincts are constantly in a cold war with this programming and its jarring at times. There were so many modern buzz words by chapter 11 of book 1 that I almost gave up mid way through the chapter. Let me be clear I dont want a perfect character, i like flaws, they are needed to show growth. This could've been a good story.

Great and imaginative story

The narration was over the top well done !! Kept my interest continuously with a great rhythm between action, romance, and tech etc.