• The Scarlet Cavern

  • An Alien Sci-Fi Harem Adventure (The Makalang, Book 1)
  • By: Michael Dalton
  • Narrated by: Mason Lloyd
  • Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (229 ratings)

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The Scarlet Cavern

By: Michael Dalton
Narrated by: Mason Lloyd
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Publisher's summary

Former Marine and lonely single dad Will Hawthorne just wants to clear his head with a weekend in the woods with his live-action-role-playing group.

But a careless misstep sends him tumbling through a cave into an alien world. There he finds a dying civilization of bizarre human-animal hybrids, filled with effete males and frustrated females who are soon pursuing him for their own ends.

For Will has stumbled into this world's most powerful legend - a legend of the one who will come to reverse its decline - the legend of the Makalang.

Contains mature themes.

©2020 Michael Dalton (P)2021 Tantor

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Incredible

I loved this book from start to finish! I’m getting book 2 now! Don’t hesitate to buy this!

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Totally surprised and enjoying

Probably the best harem book I have ever read! Tasteful and well written and narrated. Looking forward to reading and listening to more from this duo!

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Great book

This is a great book and I love the original take on the Isekai genre. This is a brand new world not a replica of your generic fantasy world. There is a great combination of high tech stuff and low tech stuff that is interesting. The narrator was decent though I'm not a fan of solo male narrators for harem novels.

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A standard, nothing new, but enjoyable

A fairly standard isekai harem book. Predictable, hitting all the right tropes. It was enjoyable and a pleasant listen, but nothing new or different.
The narrator was quite good. I’ve gotten spoiled with dual narration, but Mason Lloyd’s female characters were well done with enough variance. Will listen again.

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the voices

the female voices sound like the main character or other men. Storyline was fairly good but hard to follow

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New World Repopulated

Very creative story but not for young folks due to multiple sexual encounters. Hope he writes more in this genre!

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turned out better than i expected

This story ended up being an ok listen for as short as it was. Not gonna win any awards but it kept me entertained.

As far as the performance goes im always at odds with any book that has a man doing female parts. It generally always comes off feeling weird and even cringy at times. There are a good number female narrators that do male parts pretty well but it just doesnt go too well the other way around usually. All that aside though he did pretty well.

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A Great First Book!

Great and varied characters with an interesting plot. The narration is excellent. The whole production is excellent!

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Full Marks

only complaints are two fold and both forgivable. first, guy wants to go home, but because it's because of his kids it's alright. second, book too short man.

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very interesting

this audiobook was my first introduction to any work by this author. I enjoyed the story and I'm interested in seeing what happens next. I think the narrator did a pretty good job.

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