Dungeon in the Clouds

A Dungeon Core LitRPG story (Rise of Kers, Book 1)

By: Daniel Weber

Narrated by: Justin Thomas James, Dorrie Sacks, Jeff Hays, Annie Ellicott

When Kers is reborn as a dungeon core, he finds himself stuck in the most improbable of places: a cloud. High in the sky and far away from the usual solid resources, Kers must face the obvious question: How is a dungeon to build itself without wood or stone?

Luckily, Kers has the sarcastic (and sometimes helpful) fairy Selena to help him get his bearings. Together, the pair delight in exploring Kers’ weird existence, creating novel mobs, and enticing adventures to plumb the lofty heights of his floors.

After all, with vicious yet fluffy snow leopards, infuriating pink slimes, and some sharks with freakin' energy beams, what’s not to love? Everything seems to be falling into place.

That is, until the other dungeons—each with their own unique resources and machinations—also take an interest in Kers. He soon finds himself with strange new friends and dangerous new foes.

After all, the Adventures Guild does not take kindly to "irregular" dungeons....

Forced to fight, Kers must use every advantage his unique situation grants him if he and his new family are to survive this second chance at life.

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Well done sir!

A different twist and a good laid back and get lost in a difficult world of danger and rewards story! Looking forward to the next!

Good story. Weird obsession with vocab words

It’s a good book. Liked the story.
But what’s with the vocab? It’s like they tried to pick the least used words in the dictionary.

I’m not sure why I need to know when someone had a damaged coxis or when they start pulling rancor instead of agro. (why did they stop using agro?)
Instead of bifurcated why not just say it split.

It creates weird and confusing moments in the book like when a hero has a queer moment (something strange happened) or when a heroine is caught playing with her thong. (a small leather strap for a cape.)

And why ROYGBIV goats?
Not multicolor, not rainbow, but actually writing ROY-G-BIV.

Synonyms are great, maybe just don’t go off the deep end.

This was a fun book.

I really enjoyed the main body of this book it threw different dungeon core concepts that it felt like a different book not just another core book which was nice. The characters interplay while at some points predictable left the individual characters to stand on their own as well. I definitely look forward to checking out the next book and thid would definitely a highly recommended book to read.

Story awesome

Love the story I wanted to see one of the flying classes sounded interesting Love how he forgot that he could control his buoyancy
for a while.

Solid Start...

Narrating cast is gold and worth trying the audiobook alone for that.

The story was entertaining, even for someone who's read a handful of Dungeon Core series. A core that's trying to grow in nifty and crafty ways, the adventurers who grow and/or meet untimely ends, and the grand scheme of trying to tread carefully amongst other dungeons, guilds, and kingdoms.

My only qualm (which is strictly personal opinion) with series like these is the ending climax. Always winning by the barest skin of your teeth at the end becomes boringly predictable when you generally know how the "last stand" is going to go. It would be nice to see an ending battle that is both grand but lacking the overabundance of desperation.