The Crafter's Dilemma: A Dungeon Core Novel

Dungeon Crafting, Book 3

By: Jonathan Brooks

Narrated by: Louise Cooksey

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

Unique, clean, frustrating naivete.

The MC can be quite frustrating with her naivete in regards to combat and politics. Completely understandable considering her circumstances but wow. I wanted to pull my hair out. Still great book. I would kill for a computer game of this!

protagonist is stupid

the protagonist (Sandra) makes too many stupid mistakes. other than that it was an ok but frustrating read.

must have

You must by this book! You must by this book! You must by this book! Awesome Amazing Astounding!

voice n logic faults

for someone who is purported to have a vast wealth of knowledge on nearly all types of crafting, the monotonous repetition of lists and nearly infantile understanding of her abilities and options is crippling to my ability to follow the story without wanting to scream at Sandra for her choices as well as the soft edged enunciation of the narration being difficult to understand at times. like she is trying to sound soft/breathy all the time which flattens intonation and performance.

Excellent book.

I would recommend this fantasy series as it definitely is a new venue presenting the development and life of a dungeon.