Dungeon Man Sam and the Orphaned Core

Dungeon Man Sam, Book 1

By: J.W. Benjamin

Narrated by: Chris Ciulla

Samuel Tolliver holds a deep and abiding hatred for Dungeons. For years he's been working and scheming to rid them from existence, and now he’s got a plan to do it.

But there's a problem: dungeons form the backbone of national economies and their construction is big business in this world. It doesn’t help that Sam’s father runs one of the world’s premier dungeon construction companies, or that Sam works for the family business.

And when a series of disastrous events culminate in the death of Sam and everyone he knows, it seemed that all was lost. Until a voice came to him, offering a deal he could not refuse.

Now Dungeon Man Sam has returned to life as the guardian for a strange new dungeon core. To save himself and his family, Sam must construct a dungeon like the world has never seen and defend it against all comers, be they monstrous or adventurous.

If he succeeds, he'll see his family once more. If he fails, oblivion awaits.

And somewhere, beyond his awareness, something ancient and terrible stirs and takes notice.

Dungeon Man Sam is a slow-burn character-focused dungeon-building LitRPG novel with a unique leveling system and elements of crafting and real time strategy.

©2022 J.W. Benjamin (P)2022 Podium Audio

could be better

The main character is not relatable and the story had potential but the main character ruins it.

Ok

The protagonist is to whiny a little is fine but the author has him whining constantly and it’s really annoying having some doubts is fine but not multiple times per paragraph

Starts good then kinda just gets boring.

Not the best faction builder I've ever come across. Starts out pretty good the gets boring. Dont think ill be following this series.

Another dungeon book with fairy disease

We start out with a creative smart and likable protagonist. In enters a very childlike, low intelligence, and excitable fairy. Result as with every other book I've read with dungeon fairy's is fairy disease. Fairy disease: where every other character in book suddenly suffers from stupidity in order to make the fairy look useful to the story, this results in the protagonist becoming as stupid as the fairy and constantly depending on the fairy to either support their ideas, justify their actions, or save the day with what should be obvious ideas. Remember author starts out with intelligent/ confident protagonist. By mid way through he is a mess with repeating inner dialogue every chapter before he remembers he is " not alone" and finally moves forward for a few pages (usually after fairy gushes over him".

Second thing is the reader. He makes the fairy sound like a mix between an excited chuwawa and Shaggy from scooby doo. Its almost unbearable with voice change mid word.

End review story is not bad but suffers from to much inner dialogue, annoying fairy, and really bad pacing.

his fault

Well it comes to find out it's not all his fault but it seems like it