Shadowcroft Academy for Dungeons

Year One

De: James Hunter, Aaron Michael Ritchey

Narrado por: Henry Kramer

Build a dungeon. Slay heroes. Survive finals.

Wounded Army vet Logan Murray thought mimics were the stuff of board games and dungeon manuals...right up until one ate him.

In a flash of snapping teeth, Logan suddenly finds himself on the doorstep to another world. He’s been unwittingly recruited into the Shadowcroft Academy for Dungeons - the most prestigious interdimensional school dedicated to training the monstrous guardians who protect the Tree of Souls from so-called heroes. Heroes who would destroy the universe if it meant a shot at advancement.

Unfortunately, as a bottom-tier cultivator with a laughably weak core, Logan’s dungeon options aren’t exactly stellar, and he finds himself reincarnated as a lowly fungaloid, a three-foot-tall mass of spongy mushroom with fewer skills than a typical sewer rat. If he’s going to survive the grueling challenges the academy has in store, he’ll need to ace the odd assortment of classes - Fiendish Fabrication, Dungeon Feng Shui, the Ethics of Murder 101 - and learn how to turn his unusual guardian form into an asset instead of a liability.

And that’s only if the gargoyle professor doesn’t demote him to a doomed wandering monster first....

From James A. Hunter - best-selling author of Rogue Dungeon, Bibliomancer (Completionist Chronicles Expanded Universe), and the LitRPG epic Viridian Gate Online - and Dragon Award-finalist Aaron Michael Ritchey comes a brand-new Dungeon Core novel, like nothing you've ever heard before. Funny, funky, and full of Gamelit goodness, this is one novel you won't want to put down.

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great fun

has all my favorite tropes. academy setting. dingeon cores. solid game mechanics. and underdog story. worth the credit and time.

Interesting story read by an unteresting Narrator

I went into this book not expecting too much other than James hunter's ability to tell a story. Some reviews were a little bit concerning but I dove in anyways. I'll stay up front that I enjoyed the story more than I thought I would, but I felt the narration was lacking. In fact, the narration almost had me putting the book down near the beginning. but the story itself eventually kept my attention.

I listen to a lot of litRPGs and cultivation books, so while I liked the game mechanics and the act of cultivating for power, I feared that the story would get bogged down too much by said mechanics and cultivation. however I was pleasantly surprised that neither were too much of a focus and it allowed the story to flow much better than most lit RPG and cultivation books. I'd say that's probably my favorite thing about this book, not to mention that again I feel the story was pretty good.

Not to be the dead horse but Henry Kramer is a bit too stiff of a narrator for me to enjoy. he didn't even really sound that interested at first and almost had a droning feeling to the way he was narrating. It did get kind of better and I will say that I was a bit surprised that he could do a distinct female voice, but even those characters felt mostly stiff.

Must listen to it faster.

It was a good story. The narrator pausing after each sentence was distracting. I did enjoy it.

This book is everything it says it is.

Its dungeon core meets Harry Potter.

Funny, fun, doesn't take itself too seriously.

It won't change your life or reinvent the genre, but it will entertain you. If it wasn't for work and sleep I would have done the entire book in one sitting, it was that fun.

Harry Potter with dungeon cores!

I loved this book! very heavily inspired by Harry Potter but I'm here for it! if you like dungeon core books and enjoyed the Potter series you'll like this book!

whoever gives this book less than 4 🌟 is wrong

This book is good. Its fun and unique, I can see a few people not enjoying, but overall very fun and I am looking forward to book 2.

I have seen some weird negative reviews, don't trust them.
one person claimed this is a clear Harry Potter rip-off, because in case you didn't realize Harry Potter is also about a mushroom man training to have his own dungeon. like I said. don't trust them.

Great story

Loved it! The story is captivating and well written and the narration is on point! I can't wait for the next one!

pretty good!

I was thoroughly impressed with this book, I wasn't expecting this book to entertain me so much.

Great story, but…

The narrator needs some work. I found myself wanting to pay attention but unable to do so, at a few points in the story

The story is a complete Hoot! So much fun!

I absolutely loved this book... it's a complete Hoot! It starts with an ex-military guy, honorably discharged because of his injuries and PTSD.
This is the story of how Logan Murray dies, but somehow winds up in Shadowcroft Academy, a school from another reality, that teaches people to become the Guardian of his own dungeon in a bizarre role playing game! With a mushroom 🍄 as his avatar, Logan starts his training program! It might be the weirdest litRPG story I've ever encountered... and it's possibly one of my most-favorite litRPG's at that!!! 😊👍
Logan joins up with a team of misfits, and they all have to work hard "cultivating" (gaining powers and leveling up) in order to get passing grades in their first year at the Academy. It really doesn't help that one of their Professors is determined to make sure they fail... where failing means permanent death!
I didn't initially "click" with the narrator, Henry Kramer. I felt like his pacing was off, but the storyline kept me enthralled, and he grew on me as things progressed.
So, my recommendation is that you get the book, and go back to school to find out what it takes to be a great Guardian!