Dungeon Heart

A LitRPG Adventure (The Singing Mountain, Book 1)

De: David Sanchez-Ponton

Narrado por: Henry Kramer

The Emperor of the Forge, Sage of Stones - meaningless titles in the face of death.

After more than 700 years, he was expecting a peaceful and lonely end to his long life. That, however, was not meant to be. A single choice changed his fate, and his soul was forced to live again as a dungeon. Reborn but shackled to the heart of a mountain. This old soul has lost everything - and more.

In a world of gods and demons, there is no room for a weak newborn dungeon. Now with a new name, Smit and his creations will have to carve out their own place. The path may be long and dangerous, but with a soul hardier than stone and a will stronger than iron, will he be able to forge his own destiny?

“Debut author David Sanchez-Ponton knocks it out of the park with a brand-new Dungeon Core Novel that is sure to be up there with the likes of Divine Dungeon, Rogue Dungeon, and Bone Dungeon. Give this one a read - you won't regret it for a second!" (James A. Hunter, best-selling author of Rogue Dungeon, Bibliomancer, and Viridian Gate Online.)

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Stilted and awkward

I couldn't get through the book so it might improve later, but all of the speech and even some of the descriptions were just awkward. Nothing in the two hours I listened to flowed naturally. It's unfortunate because it seemed like the story was going to be interesting, but I just couldn't do it.

A good entry into dungeon core books

Slight? spoilers

With a mixed perspective of the core and several human characters (mostly an adventuring group and a select nobles) it provides a solid mix of fantasy and dungeon mechanics. the inclusion of monsters with actual personality makes battles tense with a sense of "who do i want to win?".

Great dungeon core book

Great story. Only real complaints I have are the info dump status at every chapter when nothing has changed and the end was a little abrupt. Kinda felt like there should have been more or something.

The world literally works like a video game.

It's literally written as if the characters had video game mechanics and abilities. They even open menus and pick new abilities when they level up. It's definitely a power fantasy for people who grew up playing video games. In this case it's based on dungeon builder style games with some thought put into how a world would work with self building dungeons in it.
It gets slightly awkward when the author describes some of the female characters but doesn't spend enough time on it to become painful. The prose in general is pretty clunky but the world is very mechanical like a video game so it works ok.
It's quite a bit of fun if you like the style but won't give you deep characters or a complicated story. It's all secondary to a fun concept and it does the fun well.

Great story, average narration

I love this story and have read it all already. the narrator did alright and the different voices and accents were good. Overall though, I found the voice actor to be robotic. Almost as if the text was run through a text to speech program. I think the part that stood out was the inflection of words as it often didn't flow.